STUDIES IN URALIC VOCALISM III

The paper discusses three issues in the history of Uralic vocalism: the change of Proto-Uralic vowel combination *ä-ä to Proto-Finnic *a-e, the fate of Proto-Uralic *i before velar consonants in Finnic, Saami and Mordvin, and the possibility of reconstructing two distinct vowels in PU non-initial sy...

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Main Author: ZHIVLOV MIKHAIL
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: Государственное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования "Российский государственный гуманитарный университет" 2014
Subjects:
УРАЛЬСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ
ФИННО-УГОРСКИЕ ЯЗЫКИ
ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ ФОНЕТИКА
ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКАЯ РЕКОНСТРУКЦИЯ
ПРАУРАЛЬСКИЙ ВОКАЛИЗМ
saami
Online Access:http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/studies-in-uralic-vocalism-iii
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Summary:The paper discusses three issues in the history of Uralic vocalism: the change of Proto-Uralic vowel combination *ä-ä to Proto-Finnic *a-e, the fate of Proto-Uralic *i before velar consonants in Finnic, Saami and Mordvin, and the possibility of reconstructing two distinct vowels in PU non-initial syllables instead of *a of the traditional reconstruction. It is argued that the development of Uralic vocalism must be described in terms of strict sound laws, and not of “sporadic developments”.

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