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Title Sounds and systems : studies in structure and change : a festschrift for Theo Vennemann / edited by David Restle, Dietmar Zaefferer
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 484 pages) : illustrations
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 141
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 141.
Contents Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Historical studies on sounds, words, and systems -- A. Sound change -- Preglottalization in English and a North Germanic bifurcation -- Zur neuhochdeutschen Dehnung in offener Tonsilbe -- Lexical diffusion in regular sound change -- Unveiling a masked change: behind vowel harmony in the dialect of Claro -- Accents and medieval English phonologists -- Retraction and rounding in Old English breaking -- B. Language change Latin ipse, Continental Celtic -xsi: a tentative proposal
Der Name al-Andalus: neue Ãœberlegungen zu einem alten ProblemFein gehackte Pinienkerne zugeben! Zum Infinitiv in Kochrezepten -- Language change in early Britain: the convergence account -- Irish ainder, Welsh anner, Breton annoar, Basque andere -- II. Synchronic studies on sounds, words, and uses -- Cyclicity and base non-identity -- The meter of nursery rhymes: universal versus language-specific patterns -- Unreine Reime und phonologische Theorie -- Choctaw intensives and syllable theory -- Imperatives: the relation between meaning and form
Struktur und Akzent komplexer KompositaWarum wir zusammenschreiben nicht immer zusammenschreiben -- PrÃ?ferenzgesetze im Schriftsystem -- Noun classification and composition in Kilmeri -- The puzzle of the autoantonymous argument role. Unraveling the polysemy of risk/riskieren -- Be brief and vague! And how Bidirectional Optimality Theory allows for verbosity and precision -- Publications of Theo Vennemann -- Tabula Gratulatoria
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology.
Linguistics.
linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Phonetics & Phonology.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Phonology
Linguistics
Taalwetenschap.
Form Electronic book
Author Restle, David, 1965-
Zaefferer, Dietmar, 1947-
Vennemann, Theo
LC no. 2002028839
ISBN 9783110894653
3110894653