Marc L. Greenberg, "A historical phonology of the Slovene language"
Marc L. Greenberg, "A historical phonology of the Slovene language"
Universitatsverlag C. Winter | 2000 | ISBN: 3825310973 | English | PDF | 196 pages | 7.9 Mb
Universitatsverlag C. Winter | 2000 | ISBN: 3825310973 | English | PDF | 196 pages | 7.9 Mb
The work gives the first synthetic and comprehensive account of the historical phonology of Slovene from the time of the arrival of Slavs in the Alpine and Balkan regions (ca. the seventh century A.D.) to the present day. Though previous scholarship has been consulted and cited for every change, many new explanations are proposed that significantly alter the received view of the dialect differentiation of the Slovene speech territory. Changes are discussed in terms of relative and, where possible, absolute chronology. Evidence for innovations has been culled from both textual as well as dialect sources. The relative dearth of textual evidence for Slovene from the eleventh century to the sixteenth is partially compensated for by onomastic as well as rich dialect data (Slovene, spoken by some 2 million speakers, is divided into 48 dialects). For this reason, onomastic and dialectological evidence, the latter in part gathered from author’s own field notes, has been relied upon substantially. The relationships of Slovene to other Slavic languages (especially Serbo-Croatian, Czech and Slovak), as well as innovations conditioned by contact with Romance (Friulian, Dalmatian, Venetian, Italien), German and Hungarian, are discussed. An annotated overview of the complex and highly variegated vowel systems found in Slovene dialects, compared with those of the modern standard language, is given in an appendix.
Marc L. Greenberg is Professor of Slavic Languages at the University of Kansas and currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. He has also served as an Associate Dean. He specializes in the history, dialectology, and sociolinguistics of Slavic languages, especially Slovene, Croatian, Czech, and Slovak. He co-founded (with Marko Snoj) and co-edited the journal Slovenski jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies, published by the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Ljubljana, and the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas (1997 - 2011). He is currently linguistic editor for the journal Slavia Centralis. He has lectured widely in the U.S. and Europe and has been a Fulbright, NEH, and IREX fellow.
Marc L. Greenberg, "A historical phonology of the Slovene language"
