The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent

By Jay Jasanoff

The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent has been written to fill a gap. The interested non-specialist can easily learn about the complex accent systems of the individual Baltic and Slavic languages and how they relate to each other. But the reader interested in the Proto-Balto-Slavic parent system, and how it evolved from the very different system of Proto-Indo-European, has few reliable places to turn. The goal of this book is to provide an accentological interface between Indo-European and Balto-Slavic--to identify and explain the accent shifts and other early changes that give the earliest stages of Baltic and Slavic their distinctive prosodic cast.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004346090
• ISBN13: 9789004346093
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"