Livonian Gradation

Types and Genesis; 45-62

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9383152
AutoresTiit-Rein Viitso
Año2007
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas45-62
Fecha de publicación2007-10-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistica Uralica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0868-4731 • E-ISSN: 1736-7506
EditorialEstonian Academy Publishers (PUBLISHER • EE)
DOI10.3176/lu.2007.1.05
OpenAlexW4206477160
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

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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