Livonian Gradation

Types and Genesis; 45-62

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9383152
AutoresTiit-Rein Viitso
Ano2007
Volume43
Fascículo1
Páginas45-62
Data de publicação2007-10-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistica Uralica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0868-4731 • E-ISSN: 1736-7506
EditoraEstonian Academy Publishers (PUBLISHER • EE)
DOI10.3176/lu.2007.1.05
OpenAlexW4206477160
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7

Gradation consists of regular alternations of strong and weak grades of stressed syllables (and corresponding stems and words) in inflected words. In Livonian, gradation concerns words having both a short nuclear vowel and a heavy coda in the first syllable of strong-grade forms. A heavy coda is produced with the broken tone or it contains a phonetically half-long or full-long vowel or consonant in syllables with the plain tone. In weak-grade forms coda is either absent or light. weak-grade forms have a long vowel in the second syllable if the first syllable is short or in the first syllable if this syllable is long. On the basis of co-occurrence in inflectional paradigms of 11 weak- and 6 strong-grade stem types 21 main types of gradational paradigms are established. The emergence of gradation in Livonian is caused mainly by strengthening of coda in initial syllables as a counterbalance to long vowels or diphthong in the second syllable and as a compensation for syncopated and apocopated vowels in the second syllable

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