Structures in Germanic Prosody : A diachronic study with special reference to the Nordic languages

This study provides a reconstruction of the development of the Germanic stress and syllabification system (as reflected in Gothic and Proto-Nordic) up to the completion of the quantity shift in Late Old Swedish. By means of current prosodic theory it is established that a domain of two moras wordini...

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Main Author: Riad, Tomas
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk 1992
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-14475
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