Selected Writings on Slavic and General Linguistics

Frederik Kortlandt is Professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He has published widely on Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, Celtic, Armenian and other languages and on linguistic theory. His publications include Modelling the phoneme (1972), Slavic accentuation (1975), Armeniaca (2003), Italo-Celtic origins and prehistoric development of the Irish language (2007), Baltica & Balto-Slavica (2009), Studies in Germanic, Indo-European and Indo-Uralic (2010), and numerous articles in Lingua, Folia Linguistica Historica, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Historische Sprachforschung, Baltistica, Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, Slavistična Revija, Zbornik za Filologiju i Lingvistiku, and other journals and edited volumes.

• PrefaceSlavic historical linguisticsSlavic accentuation: introductionSlavic accentuation 1: the l-participleSlavic accentuation 2: Slovene konjSlavic accentuation 3: the loss of the Indo-European laryngealsSlavic accentuation 4: the adjectiveSlavic accentuation 5: case endingsThe Slovene neo-circumflexJers and nasal vowels in the Freising FragmentsThe accentuation of suffixless deverbal nouns in SlavicThe accentuation of the Kiev LeafletsA history of Slavic accentuationOn the history of Slavic accentuationOn the history of the Slavic nasal vowelsBulgarian accentuationIndo-European *pt in SlavicOn final syllables in SlavicLinguistic theory, universals, and Slavic accentuationEarly dialectal diversity in South Slavic IFrom Proto-Indo-European to SlavicOn reduced vowels in SlavicThe progressive palatalization of SlavicOn methods of dealing with facts and opinions in a treatment of the progressive palatalization of SlavicPolabian accentuationThe accentuation of neuter nouns in Slovene and West BulgarianThe Indo-European stative in SlavicThe accentual system of the Freising manuscriptsOn the accent marks in the First Freising FragmentKazania Świętokrzyskie: a text editionRounded nasal vowels in the Freising FragmentsBad theory, wrong conclusions: M. Halle on Slavic accentuationEarly dialectal diversity in South Slavic IIIndo-European e-, a-, o- in SlavicFrom Serbo-Croatian to Indo-EuropeanOn the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developmentsSlavic historical morphology: nominal paradigmsIssues in Balto-Slavic accentologyRise and development of Slavic accentual paradigmsSome points of discussion in Slavic historical linguisticsWest Slavic accentuationGeneral linguisticsTemporal gradation and temporal limitationOn the meaning of the Japanese passiveThe origin of the Japanese and Korean accent systemsAre Mongolian and Tungus genetically related?Syntax and semantics in the history of ChineseJapanese wa, mo, ga, wo, na, noRussian syntax and semanticsGlottalization and tonogenesis in Athabaskan, Balto-Slavic and GermanicAppendix: Indo-EuropeanThe Proto-Germanic aoristThe Tocharian s-presentBalto-Slavic o-grade presentsReferencesIndex

”[a] monumental volume … Any historical linguist would be well served to include this excellent collection of articles on their short list of resources, in particular specialists in Slavic historical phonetics and accentuation as well as those concentrating on comparative Proto-Indo-European linguistics. Theoretical linguistics experts will also welcome this solidly documented, methodologically sound, and argumentatively convincing book. Viewed on its own terms it is a major contribution to the field and deserves to occupy a prominent place in the discipline.” in: Slavic and East European Journal 56.4 (Winter 2012)