On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants
This paper confronts and resolves the problem of apparent exceptions to the constraint prohibiting the co-occurrence of identical consonants in both syllable margins of the PIE root: schematically, †… Ci … E … Ci …, where † indicates the prohibition of the root structure following it, Ci = the ident...
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2022-12-01
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| description | This paper confronts and resolves the problem of apparent exceptions to the constraint prohibiting the co-occurrence of identical consonants in both syllable margins of the PIE root: schematically, †… Ci … E … Ci …, where † indicates the prohibition of the root structure following it, Ci = the identical consonant, E = the ablauting vowel, and … = optional additional consonants in the syllable margins. In advancement of previous work addressing this problem — most recently exemplified in Cooper (2009), Corbeau (2013) and Weiss (2020) — it eliminates several potential exceptions to the constraint and proposes that, once a cross-linguistic absence-of-contrast principle is taken into account which determines the relation of laryngeal features (glottalization, aspiration, and voicing) to the syllable margins that contain them, no clear-cut exceptions remain. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-08eac1f5a75f4685ae0fa066f56bc4682023-08-04T14:41:31ZengUniversity of EdinburghPapers in Historical Phonology2399-67142022-12-017126–143126–14310.2218/pihph.7.2022.89598959On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonantsPaul S. CohenBenji WaldThis paper confronts and resolves the problem of apparent exceptions to the constraint prohibiting the co-occurrence of identical consonants in both syllable margins of the PIE root: schematically, †… Ci … E … Ci …, where † indicates the prohibition of the root structure following it, Ci = the identical consonant, E = the ablauting vowel, and … = optional additional consonants in the syllable margins. In advancement of previous work addressing this problem — most recently exemplified in Cooper (2009), Corbeau (2013) and Weiss (2020) — it eliminates several potential exceptions to the constraint and proposes that, once a cross-linguistic absence-of-contrast principle is taken into account which determines the relation of laryngeal features (glottalization, aspiration, and voicing) to the syllable margins that contain them, no clear-cut exceptions remain.http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/8959 |
| spellingShingle | Paul S. Cohen Benji Wald On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants Papers in Historical Phonology |
| title | On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants |
| title_full | On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants |
| title_fullStr | On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants |
| title_short | On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants |
| title_sort | on the pie root structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants |
| url | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/8959 |
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