Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Description
I have suggested (Accentual mobility: the prehistory of the Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Copenhagen, 2006) that the origin of the paradigmatic accent mobility in the Baltic and Slavic languages (e.g. Russian nom. sg. golová, acc. sg. gólovu, gen. sg. golový; nom.-acc. pl. gólovy, gen. pl. golóv, etc.) may be found in a pre-Proto-Balto- Slavic accent loss in syllables with a certain structure. When I presented this hypothesis I did not adduce typological evidence in favour of an accent loss of this kind. Recently, however, Henning Andersen has pointed out that typologically similar, if not identical, processes of accent loss have taken place independently in Slavonian dialects of Štokavian and Karelian dialects of Russian. In this paper I shall examine the perspectives these typological parallels open for the discussion of the origin of the Balto-Slavic paradigmatic accent mobility.
Period
11 Sept 2008
Event title
14th International Congress of Slavists
Event type
Conference
Location
Ohrid, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic ofShow on map