Preface
List of Tables
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
?1.1?Purpose of This Study
?1.2?Language Labels
?1.3?Prosodic Terminology. Notation of Reconstructed Forms
?1.4?Structure of the Work
2 Balto-Slavic Prosodics: Stress Position
?2.1?Introduction
?2.2?Lithuanian
?2.3?Latvian
?2.4?Old Prussian
?2.5?Slavic
?2.6?Balto-Slavic Stress: Mobile Nominal Paradigms
?2.7?Balto-Slavic Stress: Valences
?2.8?Stress Position in Balto-Slavic and PIE
?2.9?Rise of Mobility: the State of the Art
?2.10?PIE and Balto-Slavic Accentual Systems (General)
?2.11?Hirt's Law
?2.12?Illic-Svityc's Accentual Correlations Revisited
?2.13?PIE and Balto-Slavic Stress Position: Conclusions and Consequences for the Rise of Acuteness
3 Balto-Slavic Prosodics: the Nature of Balto-Slavic Acuteness
?3.1?Introduction
?3.2?Lithuanian
?3.3?Latvian
?3.4?Old Prussian
?3.5?Baltic: Interim Summary and Further Prospects: Indirect Evidence
?3.6?Baltic Circumflex Metatony (with Development *ii?as > *is, *ii?a > *e)
?3.7?Baltic Word-Final *i > *i
?3.8?Baltic Secondary Local Cases
?3.9?Balto-Slavic Local Adverbs
?3.10?Common Slavic Tones (Evidence)
?3.11?Slavic Evidence for Acuteness in Unstressed Syllables
?3.12?Mobility and Acuteness (Meillet's Law)
?3.13?Balto-Slavic Acuteness: Summary
?3.14?Approaches to the Realization of Balto-Slavic Acuteness
?3.15?Comparative Arguments: PIE Background
?3.16?Comparative Arguments: Balto-Slavic Data
?3.17?The Areal Dimension
?3.18?Balto-Slavic Acuteness from a Typological Perspective
?3.19?The Realization of Balto-Slavic Acuteness: Summary
4 The Origin of Balto-Slavic Acuteness: the State of the Art
?4.1?Introduction
?4.2?(PostNeogrammarian Approach
?4.3?(PostNeogrammarian Approach: Word-Final Syllables
?4.4?(PostNeogrammarian Approach: Word-Internal Position
?4.5?Kortlandt's 'Glottalization' Approach
?4.6?Jasanoff's Approach
?4.7?The Rise of Acuteness so far: Summary and Criticism
?4.8?Conclusion and Further Prospects
5 The Indo-European Lengthened Grade in Balto-Slavic
?5.1?Introduction
?5.2?PIE Lengthened Grade: Main Types
?5.3?PIE Lengthened Grade: Origin and Antiquity
?5.4?PIE Lengthened Grade: Nature of the Evidence
?5.5?Kortlandt's Theory of the Origin of the PIE Lengthened Grade
?5.6?Evidence for Balto-Slavic Non-Acute
?5.7?Evidence for Balto-Slavic Acute: Verbal Formations
?5.8?Evidence for Balto-Slavic Acute: Nominal Formations
?5.9?Word-Final Position: Consonant-Stem Nominative Singular
?5.10?Word-Final Position: Other Endings
?5.11?Conclusion
?5.12?Implications for the Rise of Acuteness and Further Prospects
6 Balto-Slavic Non-acute Monophthongs
?6.1?Introduction: the Problem
?6.2?Non-acute Monophthongs and Contractional Length
?6.3?Contractional Length: Nominal Endings
?6.4?Contractional Length: Verbal Formations
?6.5?Contractional Length: Other Formations
?6.6?Loanwords
?6.7?Monosyllabic Circumflexion
?6.8?Nikolaev's Metatony: the Evidence
?6.9?Origin of Nikolaev's Metatony
?6.10?Sources of Acute and Non-acute Monophthongs: Summary and Problems
?6.11?Winter's Law
?6.12?The Rise of Acuteness in Monophthongs
7 Osthoff's Law in Balto-Slavic
?7.1?Introduction
?7.2?Osthoff's Law in Balto-Slavic: the State of the Art
?7.3?Nature of the Evidence
?7.4?East Baltic: Word-Internal Position
?7.5?East Baltic: Long Diphthongs in Absolute Word-Final Position
?7.6?East Baltic: o-stem Instrumental Plural
?7.7?East Baltic: Accusative Plural and the Chronology of Osthoff's Law
?7.8?East Baltic: Secondary Local Cases
?7.9?Old Prussian
?7.10?Slavic: Long Diphthongs in Absolute Word-Final Position
?7.11?Slavic: Word-Final Syllables
?7.12?Slavic: Word-Initial *ort-
?7.13?Slavic: Word-Internal Position
?7.14?Conclusion
8 Acute and Length in Balto-Slavic Diphthongs
?8.1?Introduction. Typological Unlikeliness of *ERHT > *ERT
?8.2?Lack of Independent Evidence for *ERT. Other Approaches
?8.3?East Baltic Word-Final *-ei?, *-ai? > *e? vs. *-ei?, *-ai? > Lith. ei,
?8.4?Baltic a-stem Locative Singular
?8.5?Baltic a-Stem Nominative-Accusative Dual
?8.6?Baltic e-stems. Infinitive *-tei?
?8.7?Baltic o-Stem Nominative Plural
?8.8?Baltic Verbal Endings
?8.9?Lith. pusiau and the Locative Dual
?8.10?Slavic
?8.11?Word-Internal Position: i?e/o-presents to ERH-roots
?8.12?Word-Internal Position: *-EHU- Sequences
?8.13?Conclusion: No Length Involved in *ERHT > *ERT
?8.14?The Rise of Acuteness in Diphthongs
?8.15?The Rise of Balto-Slavic Acuteness: Framing the Problem
?8.16?The Rise of Acuteness in Balto-Slavic
9 Concluding Remarks
?9.1?The Rise of Acuteness in Balto-Slavic: Summary and Pending Questions
?9.2?Contraction across Laryngeals and Balto-Slavic Tonogenesis
?9.3?The Development of the PIE Laryngeals in Northern Indo-European and Balto-Slavic Tonogenesis
?9.4?Topics for Future Study
Bibliography
Index of Forms
