| Title |
Dėl pr. -ing- priegaidės / |
| Translation of Title |
On the syllable intonation of opr. -ing. |
| Authors |
Rinkevičius, Vytautas |
| DOI |
10.15388/baltistica.44.1.1296 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Baltistica.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2009, t. 44, nr. 1, p. 65-75.. ISSN 0132-6503 |
| Abstract [eng] |
The difference in syllable intonation between the circumflex of OPr. -īng- and the acute of Lith. -ìng-, Latv. -îg- could be explained by the fact that these suffixes acquired stress relatively recently in the separate languages. In Lithuanian it became stressed as a result of Saussure-Fortunatov’s law, i.e. in the period when syllable intonations were distinguished in both stressed and unstressed syllables, whereas the stress of OPr. -īng- might be posterior to a possible neutralisation of syllable intonations in unstressed syllables. Alternatively, at least some of the attested OPr. examples with -īng- can be interpreted as contracted from forms with -īwing-, cf. wertīngs : wertīwings. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2009 |
