Eintrag

Titel

The evolution of Germanic phonological systems: Proto-Germanic, Gothic, West Germanic and Scandinavian

Personen

Vulf Plotkin

Jahr

2008

Typ

Monographie

Verlag

Edwin Mellen Press

Ort

Lewiston, NY; Queenston; Lampeter

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Englisch
Niederländisch
Skandinavisch

Schlagwörter

Historisch
Phonologie

Abstract

This work expounds a new approach to fundamental problems of phonology, based on applying principles of general systemics to linguistic exploration. The proposed approach is then applied to the historical evolution of Germanic phonological systems since the separation of Proto-Germanic from Proto-Indo-European, concluding with modern German, English, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic. It is demonstrated that these divergent evolutionary lines have been continuous cause-and-effect chains, and that the root causes of phonological evolution lie in the restructurings on the systemic tier of the ultimate phonological quanta.

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