Mudança Sonora e Analogia: Reflexo Sincrônico do Alongamento Secundário Compensatório em Dialeto do Grego Antigo

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v3i1.1009

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Sound change, Analogy, Mobile diphthong, Compensatory lengthening, Ancient Greek

Abstract

In early Greek, at several occasions short vowels became long to compensate for the loss or the resyllabification of a neighbouring consonant. Here we will discuss the process that is known in the Hellenistic literature as the ‘Second Compensatory Lengthening’. This rule affected intervocalic and word-final Vns sequences, in a manner that was different for the various dialects. We will discuss the synchronic reflexes of the Vns sequence in the Ancient Greek dialects and show that the dialectal variation can be explained partly as a result of differences in the nature of the consonant deletion rule, and partly as the effect of lexical restructuring-cum-rule-loss, or analogical levelling.
KEYWORDS: Sound change. Analogy. Mobile diphthong. Compensatory lengthening. Ancient Greek.

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Willem Leo Wetzels, Vrije Universiteit Asterdam (VU/Holanda)

W. Leo Wetzels é doutor em Lingüística pela University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands (atualmente Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen). Professor na graduação e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Lingüística na Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The Netherlands. Editor-chefe da revista Probus. Coordenador de vários projetos, dentre eles: The Nambikwara Indians. A Description of their Languages (Latundê, Sararé, and Sabanê) and their Culture Pano Languages and Cultures by the Pano themselves Studies of the Eastern Maku Languages (Brazil). Autor de vários artigos publicados em periódicos especializados, dentre eles: On the Weight Issue in Portuguese; Discussion: Fieldwork and Phonological Theory. Autor e co-autor de vários capítulos de livros, dentre os quais Estudos Fonológicos de Línguas Indígenas Brasileiras; Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages: Linguistic and Anthropological Studies with Special Emphasis on the Languages and Cultures of the Andean-Amazonian Border Área.

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2006-06-30

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WETZELS, W. L. Mudança Sonora e Analogia: Reflexo Sincrônico do Alongamento Secundário Compensatório em Dialeto do Grego Antigo. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 3, n. 1, p. 69-89, 2006. DOI: 10.22481/el.v3i1.1009. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/1009. Acesso em: 22 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2006): Estudos da Língua(gem) - ISSN: 1982-0534

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