The Accents of Celtic
New Light on the Older and Oldest Stages
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1. Edition, 2023
430 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-8606-1
Product: Ebook
Edition: PDF
Subject: Indogermanistik
Series: Indogermanische Bibliothek. 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen
Available: 19.04.2023
Keywords:
historische Sprachwissenschaft, Keltisch, Bretonisch, Britannisch, Gallisch, Irisch, Lepontisch, Manx, Schottisch-Gaelisch, Vannetais, Walisisch, Keltiberisch, Goidelisch, Lautwandel, Betonung, word-stress, Wortbildung, Etymologie, Sprachgeschichte, Personennamen, Namenforschung, Onomastik, Theonymik, Toponymik, Trümmersprachen, Epigraphik, Inschriften, Altertum, Antike, Mittelalter
The key to the phonetic development of a given word across time lies in its accentuation. As the Old Celtic remains do not indicate their accent, it has to be deduced from their sound-changes.
This book investigates for the first time in depth 14 Celtic phenomena resulting from the weakening of unstressed syllables (vocalic assimilations and reductions up to syncope, degeminations, ‚w‘-loss, nasal effacement, metathesis of liquids) and the strengthening of stressed ones (vocalic epenthesis and diphthongizations, geminations of consonants). The stress-patterns emerging from them are corroborated by the originally Celtic toponymy in today’s non-Celtic-speaking countries and allow us to reconstruct the Celtic subfamily of languages by drawing a much simpler accentual model which also finds typological support.
With its diachronic discussion of more than 3,600 words the book represents, moreover, a big help in the understanding of Celtic lexicon and onomastics.
