THE PREHISTORY OF THE SLAVIC CLUSTERS ST IN THE DIACHRONIC CONTEXT
THE PREHISTORY OF THE SLAVIC CLUSTERS ST IN THE DIACHRONIC CONTEXT
Author(s): Ondřej ŠefčíkSubject(s): Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: clusters sibilant + t; phonemic trajectory; spirantization; affricativization; de-palatalization; Old Church Slavonic; Common Slavic; Indo-Iranian; Baltic;
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at presenting four different sources of the Slavic clusters st and analysing them in diachronic contexts, according to their origins (< IE *st, *št, *Ḱt, *Tt). The IE cluster *st has been fully preserved, the late IE cluster *št is de-palatalized as is the satəm-cluster *Ḱt (which has merged with *št in almost all the satəm-languages). The cluster *Tt developed regularly into st in Balto-Slavic and IndoIranian languages (and Greek), into 0s in Albanian and u̯t in Armenian – the Armenian development leads to preference for the cluster’s spirantization (as stated earlier by Bartholomae for Indo-Iranian) over the traditional “Brugmannian” affricativization.
Journal: Slavia Occidentalis
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 77-1
- Page Range: 113-121
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
