Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek

This book investigates how semivowels were realized in Indo-European and in early Greek. More specifically, it examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what respects their alternation was predictable, and how this situation changed as Indo-European developed into Greek.The comprehensive and chronologically sensitive nature of this study, together with its ...