{"title":"North Slavic -ě vs. South Slavic -ę: A Problem of Forward Reconstruction","authors":"Ronald I. Kim","doi":"10.1353/jsl.2019.0000","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Abstract:</p><p>The long problematic correspondence of North Slavic <i>-ě</i> ~ South Slavic <i>-ę</i> in the <i>jo</i>-stem accusative plural and <i>jā</i>-stem genitive singular and nominative and accusative plural is best explained by positing a Proto-Slavic contrast within the soft <i>jā</i>-stems between gen. sg., nom. pl. *<i>-ē</i> and acc. pl. *<i>-ę̄</i>, which was leveled in different directions as NSl <i>-ě</i> and SSl <i>-ę</i>. With its nasal vowel, the acc. pl. ending must go back to *<i>-jāns</i>, thereby demonstrating that the PIE <i>eh2</i>-stem desinence *<i>-eh2s</i> > *<i>-ās</i> was remade to *<i>-āns</i> after the other declensional classes in the early prehistory of Slavic. The Baltic facts are consistent with a Proto-Balto-Slavic date for this innovation.</p>","PeriodicalId":52037,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2019-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/jsl.2019.0000","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Slavic Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2019.0000","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract:
The long problematic correspondence of North Slavic -ě ~ South Slavic -ę in the jo-stem accusative plural and jā-stem genitive singular and nominative and accusative plural is best explained by positing a Proto-Slavic contrast within the soft jā-stems between gen. sg., nom. pl. *-ē and acc. pl. *-ę̄, which was leveled in different directions as NSl -ě and SSl -ę. With its nasal vowel, the acc. pl. ending must go back to *-jāns, thereby demonstrating that the PIE eh2-stem desinence *-eh2s > *-ās was remade to *-āns after the other declensional classes in the early prehistory of Slavic. The Baltic facts are consistent with a Proto-Balto-Slavic date for this innovation.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Slavic Linguistics, or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists. Published papers deal with any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Slavic linguistics – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics – which raises substantive problems of broad theoretical concern or proposes significant descriptive generalizations. Comparative studies and formal analyses are also published. Different theoretical orientations are represented in the journal. One volume (two issues) is published per year, ca. 360 pp.