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Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes Ferdinand de Saussure

Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes By Ferdinand de Saussure

Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes by Ferdinand de Saussure


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Using comparison and internal reconstruction, Saussure's Memoire solved a long-standing linguistic problem by proposing the existence of two further sonant coefficients in Proto-Indo-European. A virtuosic work far ahead of its time, it paved the way for laryngeal theory and may have stimulated Saussure's later development of structuralism.

Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes Summary

Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes by Ferdinand de Saussure

Written in 1878, while the author was a twenty-year-old student in Berlin, Saussure's only full-length work proposed the existence of two additional sonant coefficients in the Indo-European parent language. Applying the methods of comparison and internal reconstruction to Proto-Indo-European, Saussure argued that the long vowels had developed from a short vowel plus a sonant coefficient. A hypothesis far ahead of its time, his proposal was not confirmed until 1927 when a consonantal phoneme etymologically derived from Saussure's A was discovered in newly deciphered Hittite, the oldest attested Indo-European language. Not only is the Memoire a dramatic demonstration of the method of internal reconstruction, but it also paved the way for further developments in historical phonology including laryngeal theory, and may have stimulated Saussure's later development of structuralism. This reissue includes, as an appendix, Antoine Meillet's 1913 obituary of Saussure.

Table of Contents

Revue des differents opinions emises sur le systeme des a; 1. Les liquides et nasales sonantes; 2. Le phoneme A dans les langues europeennes; 3. Les deux o greco-italiennes; 4. Indices de la pluralite des a dans la langue mere indo-europeenne; 5. Role grammatical des differentes especes d'a; 6. De differents phenomenes relatifs aux sonantes i, u, r, n, m; Registre des mots grecs.

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NLS9781108006590
9781108006590
1108006590
Memoire sur le systeme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-europeennes by Ferdinand de Saussure
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Cambridge University Press
2009-11-26
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