The Development of Prefixation in Time and Space: Ditropic Clitics and Prosodic Realignment in Dialects of Indo‐European.
The paper argues that seemingly aberrant phonological developments of local adverbs that have become prepositions and verbal and nominal prefixes in Baltic, Germanic and Armenian are to be explained by the assumption of a phase of 'ditropic' behaviour: 'ditropic clitics' select as their prosodic hos...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Philological Society Vol. 117; no. 2; pp. 157 - 199 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2019
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