Prehistoric Slavic Contraction

by Jií Marvan

Book Overview

This book outlines the origin and process of contraction as it took place in the proto-dialects of the future Czech, Serbian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian languages in about the ninth to eleventh centuries. The author's conception differs from the traditional attitude to the available data mainly in the assumption that the discriminative treatment of contraction by different proto-dialects is not a handicap but rather an efficient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00350CMZI
• ISBN13: 9780271002101
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"