Pedersen and Balticum (Did the ruki-rule affected Proto-Baltic?)
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Linguistica Lettica |
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| Web | https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/65578 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/lingualet.31.2 |
| Keywords | Pedersen´s Law; ruki-rule; Baltic languages; indo-European Phonology |
| Description | Pedersen’s law describes the development of the IE *s after *i, u, r, k, causing the shift of IE *s into *š. The process is well known from Indo-Iranian and Slavic. The process also affects Lithuanian but not Latvian or Old Prussian. The paper demonstrates that the Baltic area was fully affected by the ruki-rule; the “defective” results in the Baltic languages are results of secondary depalatalizations. The paper also provides examples of similar processes affecting “Pedersen’s” sibilant in other sat?m-languages. |
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