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Germanic Accentology (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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Germanic Accentology (Paperback, Minnesota Archive Editions Ed.)
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Germanic Accentology was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive
Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books
once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the
original University of Minnesota Press editions. The Scandinavian
languages are among the few living Indo-European languages that
possess a ramified system of special tones or accents. Such accents
are widespread in the languages of Africa and Asia (creating, for
example, the singsong character of Chinese and Vietnamese), but in
the vast territory occupied by the Indo-European family only the
Scandinavian languages, some German dialects, Lithuanian, Latvian,
and Serbo- Croatian have similar accetologies. The function and
origin of the Scandinavian accents are central problems facing
linguists and are the issues that Anatoly Liberman confronts in
this book. Liberman uses the methods of synchronic and diachronic
phonology to explore the current status of Scandinavian accentology
and to reconstruct its historical development. In the first,
synchronic, group of chapters he analyzes the accents and
accent-like phenomena in all the modern Scandinavian languages,
comparing the literary languages with spoken dialects, and drawing
from all of the published descriptions of and theories about
Scandinavian prosody. In the final, diachronic, chapter he presents
a new hypothesis on the origins of Scandinavian accentology based
upon his descriptive material. Throughout, his theoretical approach
is that of a functionalist.
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