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The accentuation and development of PGmc. */ga-/

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Daniel P. Quinlin
Daniel P. Quinlin
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Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI 48824
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Abstract

Previous studies on the development of PGmc. */ga-/ have been inadequate due, in part, to a misunderstanding or underestimation of the roles of word accent and syntactic accent. Purported evidence for stressed */ga-/ in Proto-Germanic or later stages is dubious and can be refuted convincingly. This article suggests that PGmc. */ga-/ never received primary word stress because it had become a clitic. Such a hypothesis allows for an unproblematic phonological derivation from Proto-Indo-European and is a logical premise for interpreting subsequent developments in the Germanic languages.

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Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 1991 , pp. 145 - 159
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Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 1991

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