10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOWEL GRADATION»
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vowel gradation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The accent shift may remain while the vowel gradation is abandoned, e.g. dik '
direction ', gen. sg. disds for what must originally have been *deiks : dikis.
Conversely the accent may be stabilised but the vowel gradation retained, e.g.
pasuman ...
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The Study of Indo-European Vocalism in the 19th Century: ...
2.3 BOPP'S CONCEPTION OF VOWEL GRADATION. The above conception of
vowel weight helps explain Bopp!s (1833:iii) insistence that his work in
phonology was based on phonetics, and helps explain also his differences with
Grimm on ...
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The Morphology of Biblical Greek: A Companion to Basics of ...
The Greeks began not to write the iota starting around 100 B.C., but we still find it
as late as the 1100s A.D. (cf. Smyth §51, but see also LaSor §11.56). Quantitative
Vowel Gradation (§3) §3.1 For various reasons, a vowel can shift its quantity ...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
UF Ablaut Apophony Vowel gradation BT Vowels RT Grammar, Comparative and
general—Gradation SA subdivision Vowel gradation under languages and
groups of languages, e.g. English language —Vowel gradation — Vowel
harmony ...
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Eight Decades of General Linguistics: The History of CIPL ...
14 in order to explain the origin of the various kinds of vowel-gradation it is of
primary importance to establish the conditions of neutralization characteristic of
the corresponding alternations. thus the i.e. vowel- gradation e:o must be
genetically ...
Ferenc Kiefer, Piet van Sterkenburg, 2012
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
UF Ablaut Apophony Vowel gradation BT Vowels RT Grammar, Comparative and
general-Gradation SA subdivision Vowel gradation under languages and groups
of languages, e.g. English language-Vowel gradation _Vowel harmony (Not ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2009
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The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic ...
Concurrent with the morphologically-conditioned development of the system of
vowel gradation, another method of indicating grammatical relationships was
developing, that being the use of inflectional endings. Gradually, the use of
endings ...
Allan R. Bomhard, John C. Kerns, 1994
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Toward Proto-Nostratic: A New Approach to the Comparison of ...
VOWEL GRADATION Proto-Indo-European, as also, for example, Proto-
Kartvelian, Northwest Caucasian, and Proto-Semitic, was characterized by an
interchange of vocalic elements that could occur in any syllable. This interchange
, which is ...
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Czech Historical Grammar
VOWEL GRADATION (VOWEL APOPHONY) 15 the sounds of any given
language may be affected by sentence- position, degree of stress, consonant-
grouping, taboo, folk-etymology, and other factors; such incidental influences
give rise to ...
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An Introduction to Ancient Greek
Awareness of the most common patterns of vowel gradation will be useful in
recognizing the relatedness of various words to a common root (e.g., 5eiicvt)ui
and 5iKaio<;) and will also facilitate the learning of the principal parts of many
irregular ...
Alfred Mollin, Robert Williamson, 1997
