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<div class="moz-forward-container">Einladung zu einem Gastvortrag
von<br>
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<b><font size="4" color="#004080">Prof. Thomas Olander</font></b><br>
(University of Copenhagen)<br>
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<b><font size="5" color="#004080">When sound change meets
inflection: Slavic final syllables</font><br>
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Termin: Dienstag, 29. April 2025, 15:00 Uhr<br>
Ort: Online mittels Zoom:<br>
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While Slavic is generally a rather conservative Indo-European
language with regard to both phonology and inflection, some
prominent forms in the inflectional system do not lend themselves
to a straightforward interpretation, e.g. o-stem nominative
singular ending -ŭ, ah₂-stem genitive singular -y and ah₂-stem
nominative plural -y. With the discovery of the birchbark
documents written in the Old Novgorod dialect, things seem to get
even more difficult: the corresponding endings found here are,
surprisingly, -e, -ě and -ě.<br>
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In this lecture I present the results of my earlier investigation
of these and related forms (Olander 2012), written before I became
familiar with the strikingly similar conclusions by Viredaz
(2009). The Old Novgorod material, rather than being yet another
set of obscure problems we have to live with, provides the key to
understanding what happened between PIE and the attested Slavic
dialects. Almost all the forms in question – both those of the
“classical” Slavic dialects and those of the Old Novgorod dialect
– are in fact the expected outcomes of the corresponding PIE
proto-forms, having arisen as the result of a pre-Proto-Slavic
change of short and long *a to *ə in final syllables closed by a
fricative: pre-Proto-Slavic *ā̆ > Proto-Slavic ə̄̆ /_ (R)S
(where R = resonant, S = fricative).<br>
<br>
<font size="2">Dr. Ivan Petrov<br>
<br>
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan-Michael Newerkla<br>
Leiter des Instituts für Slawistik<br>
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Müller<br>
Dekan der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der
Universität Wien<br>
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