Greek dialects and the transformation of an indo-european process

212 Pages·1970·3.381 MB·English

by  Gregory Nagy

Loeb Classical Monographs
In Memory of
James C. Loeb

GREEK DIALECTS
and the Transformation of an
Indo-European Process
Gregory Nagy
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
I97O
© Copyright 1970 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to thank generally all my colleagues and friends at
Harvard University for their encouragement, and especially
Wendell Clausen, Chairman of the Classics Department. For
their advice on specific problems, I am grateful to Henning
Andersen, Bruce Boling, Donald Cooper, Ives Goddard, Jay
JasanofF, Antanas Klimas, D. G. Miller, H. A. Roe, J. L. St.
John, and Roy Wright. I owe special thanks to Warren Cowgill
and F. W. Householder for their scrutiny of this work at various
stages, and I am equally grateful to Jerzy Kurylowicz for his
gracious advice. Of course this list does not necessarily imply
assent by these men to any of the ideas here presented. I also
thank Mrs. Katryna Jacobsen for her kindness in helping me
with the manuscript. What I value most of all is the sustained
interest and counsel of my teacher and friend Calvert Watkins.
To him I dedicate these lucubrations, or at least whatever may
be wholesome in them; and I hope that the reader will not find
too much chaff to winnow.
G. N.

CONTENTS
Introduction ι
I. Postconsonantal/prevocalic * -i- in IΕ Grammatical
Categories 3
II. Reflexes of Nominal *-(i)jo-, *-(i)jä- in Lithuanian 49
III. The Development of 1 and t in Greek, and Their
Distribution 101
IV. Marginalia to Benveniste's Origines 152
Index 185

GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
> /< (is) phonologically changed to/from
->/-«— founds or presupposes/ (is) founded or presupposed
by
=> j <= (is) transformed into/from
() contains optional elements
[ ] contains phonetic elements
/ I contains phonemic elements
< ) contains graphemic elements
{ } used to set off any symbolized process or relation-
ship so that the contingent syntax will not be
disrupted
|| marks a morpheme-boundary
Φ marks absolute word-initial and word-final posi-
tions
0 zero
V vowel
R r 1 m η
G consonant, including R, unless the latter is sepa-
rately indicated
C' or C palatalized C
a laryngeal; the symbol is simply traditional, with
no implication intended here regarding actual
articulation
j u non-syllabic i u
ix
GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS
marks conjectured forms; when an entry starts
with *V C Χ Y etc., the asterisk is generally
canceled; conversely, an asterisk generally cancels
italics
versus; though vs. is also used when clarity seems
at stake
Indo-European