Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic

Saskia Pronk-Tiethoff’s research focuses on Slavic historical linguistics and language contact between Slavic and Germanic. She studied Slavic languages and cultures and Comparative Indo-European linguistics at Leiden University, where she also obtained her doctoral degree. She currently lives in Zagreb, where she contributed to the Croatian-Dutch dictionary (Institute for Croatian Language and Linguistics), and now contributes to the Croatian Church Slavic dictionary (Old Church Slavonic Institute).

• PrefaceList of abbreviationsIntroductionAim and structureLinguistic sources and terminologyMonographs on Germanic loanwords in Proto-SlavicThe Proto-Slavic prosodic systemIntroductionAP (a)AP (b)AP (c)AP (d)?Research history on the accentuation of Germanic loanwords in Proto-SlavicMeillet (1909), Lehr-Spławiński (1929)Stender-Petersen (1927), Kiparsky (1934)Kuryłowicz (1951, 1952)Reception of Kuryłowicz (1951, 1952)Language contact between Proto-Slavic and Germanic tribesThe Germanic and Slavic homelandsSlavic expansion towards the Roman EmpireSlavic expansion towards the west and the later Frankish EmpireProto-Slavic loanwords in GermanicConclusionExcursus I: Loanwords from and into Latin and early RomanceExcursus II: ‘Temematic’ substrate in Proto-SlavicThe main corpus: Germanic loanwords in Proto-SlavicIntroductionLoanwords with AP (a)Loanwords with AP (b) and a heavy syllabic nucleusLoanwords with AP (b) and a light syllabic nucleusLoanwords with AP (c)Loanwords with an unknown APWords that cannot be regarded as certain Germanic loanwords in Proto-SlavicIntroductionLater loanwords from Germanic (a selection)Loanwords of Latin or Germanic originWords of indeterminable originWords that cannot be regarded as Germanic loanwords in Proto-SlavicThe origin of the loanwordsIntroductionPhonological adaptation of the loanwordsMorphological adaptation of the loanwordsSemantic layering of the loanwordsAccentological analysis of the materialSummary and introductionPresentation of the material according to their Germanic originDiscussion of the materialBibliographyBibliographic abbreviationsReferencesIndex

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