Kazuhiko Yoshida
  吉田 和彦
   所属   京都産業大学  外国語学部 アジア言語学科
   職種   客員教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2011
形態種別 研究論文
査読 査読あり
標題 Proto-Anatolian as a mora-based language
執筆形態 その他
掲載誌名 TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY
出版社・発行元 WILEY-BLACKWELL
巻・号・頁 109(1),pp.92-108
著者・共著者 Kazuhiko Yoshida
概要 It is not easy by any means to obtain prosodic information from documents written in ancient languages because it is not usually recorded therein. But the techniques of philology and linguistics sometimes enable us to derive prosodic evidence from written data. The two lenition rules in Proto-Anatolian, which were considered to have operated either after an accented long vowel or between two short vowels, have been unified by Adiego into a single rule in moraic terms: lenition occurred after an unaccented mora. Furthermore, Hittite mediopassive present verbs of the nasal-infix class, which cannot be adequately accounted for on the supposition that the basic units which carried accents in Proto-Anatolian were syllables, come to receive a well-motivated (both morphologically and typologically) and straightforward historical explanation from a moraic point of view. These two independent pieces of evidence inevitably lead us to argue that Proto-Anatolian was a mora-based language.
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2011.01252.x
ISSN 0079-1636/1467-968X