{"id":2394,"date":"2012-11-28T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2012-11-19T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:22:48","slug":"the-sound-of-indo-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2394","title":{"rendered":"The sound of Indo-European"},"content":{"rendered":"
The sound of Indo-European<\/strong>: <\/strong>Phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics. Ed. by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead<\/strong>, Thomas Olander<\/strong>, Birgit Anette Olsen<\/strong>, and Jens Elmeg\u00e5rd Rasmussen<\/strong>. (Copenhagen studies in Indo-European 4.) Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. Pp. 630. ISBN 9788763538381<\/a>. $116 (Hb).<\/div>\n

Reviewed by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Mondon<\/a><\/strong>, Minot State University<\/em><\/p>\n

This book contains twenty-nine papers, all in English aside from three in German, selected from a conference held in Copenhagen in 2009. A wide breadth of daughter branches of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) receive ample coverage in this book. Due to space limitations, only a sampling of the articles can be highlighted here.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Aaron Griffith<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Non-raising before *<\/em>m<\/em> in Old Irish\u2019 proposes that PIE *e<\/em> did not raise before lenited *m<\/em>, allowing him to account for four recalcitrant forms more easily, particularly teimel<\/em> \u2018darkness\u2019. In \u2018Lenition of s<\/em> in Gaulish?\u2019 David Stifter<\/strong> sifts through Gaulish data, concluding that there was no deletion of s<\/em> across the board, but rather loss in specific environments. Nicholas Zair<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018A new environment for laryngeal loss in Proto-Celtic\u2019 highlights the gains that are achieved by assuming laryngeal loss in *-RHT-<\/em> clusters in Proto-Celtic, not the least of which is a clear derivation of Old Irish do.<\/sup>cer<\/em> \u2018fell\u2019. Anders Richardt J\u00f8rgensen<\/strong>, in \u2018Palatalization of *sk<\/em> in British Celtic\u2019, proposes that *sk<\/em> yielded*h\u1e77<\/em> initially before a front vowel and *x<\/em> medially before *y<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Brent Vine<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018PIE mobile accent in Italic: Further evidence\u2019 is an exciting paper that shows evidence of a Latin sound law raising *e <\/em>to i<\/em> in unstressed positions with respect to PIE accent. Michael Frotscher<\/strong> offers an interesting proposal on the development of *-\u1e5b<\/em> in Latin and Vedic. In Latin, the outcomes are conditioned by the preceding consonant, while in Sanskrit the outcomes are conditioned by the placement of the accent. In \u2018Predicting Indo-European syllabification through phonotactic analysis\u2019, Andrew Miles Byrd<\/strong> refines the input to the rule of laryngeal loss from *CH.CC > C.CC to *TH.CC and also offers motivation for the metron<\/em>-rule. Paul S. Cohen <\/strong>and Adam Hyllested<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018A new sound law of PIE: Initial **h3<\/sub>\u1e77 <\/em>> *h2<\/sub>\u1e77<\/em>\u2019 accounts for the paucity of *h3<\/sub><\/em>before *\u1e77<\/em> word-initially, in addition to offering cleaner derivations for certain words that formerly forced the assumption of a non-ablauting *a<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Eugen Hill<\/strong>, in \u2018Hidden sound laws in the inflectional morphology of Proto-Indo-European\u2019, takes up an idea of Warren Cowgill\u2019s and derives the first-person singular of thematic verbs from *-o-mi<\/em>, postulating an early PIE rule and examining its repercussions. Martin Joachim K\u00fcmmel<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Typology and reconstruction\u2019 evaluates various versions of the glottalic theory as well as certain oddities of qualitative ablaut. Paul Widmer<\/strong>, in \u2018Notiz zur holokinetischen Ablautklasse\u2019, delves into the problem of why holokinetic inflectional patterns can be built from all other types of inflectional classes, concluding that optional locative endings were misanalyzed as the full grade ending of a holokinetic stem.\u00a0 Georges-Jean Pinault<\/strong>, in \u2018Remarks on PIE amphikinetic and hysterokinetic nouns\u2019, also deals with holokinetic nouns but derives them from a type of v\u1e5bddhied hysterokinetic class.Finally, Zsolt Simon<\/strong>\u2019s chapter, \u2018PIE \u201cme\u201d and a new Lydian sound law\u2019, proposes that *h1<\/sub>R-<\/em> > aR-<\/em> in Lydian which forces a slight tweaking of the reconstruction of PIE personal pronouns.<\/p>\n

Apart from the lack of a word-index, this book is of high quality, with very few typographical errors, and is a necessity for anyone interested in the latest developments in Indo-European linguistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, phonemics, and morphophonemics. Ed. by Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander, Birgit Anette Olsen, and Jens Elmeg\u00e5rd Rasmussen. (Copenhagen studies in Indo-European 4.) Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012. Pp. 630. ISBN 9788763538381. $116 (Hb). Reviewed by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Mondon, Minot State University This book contains twenty-nine papers, all in English aside from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}