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Fries, Simon (2019). Kleines Lautgesetz, grosse Wirkung. Indoger. Forsch., 124 (1). S. 61 - 115. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 1613-0405

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Abstract

The unexpected i instead of expected *e in the first syllable of Latin wordforms such as nisi, nimis, nihil, mihi, tibi and sibi has until now been explained in various ways either from vowel assimilation of original *e to the i of the second syllable or from clitic weakening of the words. This article aims at giving a common mechanical explanation for all of these words by posing a new sound law according to which original *e in Latin becomes i in initial open syllables followed by a syllable which originally contained the vowel e as the result from monophthongisation of the diphthongs *ei, *oi or *ai (< *h2ei) in second syllable position. For this purpose, the article reconstructs the history of the abovementioned explanations - especially the vowel assimilation theory which goes back to an early article by Sommer -, tries to falsify them by critically examining the evidence adduced for proving them, and eventually derives the new sound law from parts of the original evidence of the falsified explanations, and by making use of additional evidence.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Fries, Simon UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-141984
DOI:	10.1515/if-2019-0003
Journal or Publication Title:	Indoger. Forsch.
Volume:	124
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 61 - 115
Date:	2019
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	1613-0405
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language CLITICS Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14198