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ablaut (äp`lout) [Ger.,=off-sound], in inflection inflection, in grammar. In many languages, words or parts of words are arranged in formally similar sets consisting of a root, or base, and various affixes. Thus walking, walks, walker have in common the root walk and the affixes -ing, -s, and
..... Click the link for more information. , vowel variation (as in English sing, sang, sung, song) caused by former differences in syllabic accent. In a prehistoric period the corresponding inflected forms of the language (known through internal reconstruction) had differences in accent rather than in vowel. Phonological change resulted in alteration of syllable structure and in vowel gradation. See umlaut umlaut [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. In this instance it is the end product of the effect of a y (long since disappeared) that was present in the plural; the y ..... Click the link for more information. . Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The topics include the expression of spatio-temporal locations in late Proto-Indo-European, verbal categorization and the coding of valency in Tocharian, internal reconstruction versus external comparison in Indo-Uralic laryngeals, the aspect-tense system and quantitative ablaut, how many noun suffices Proto-Indo-European had, and new Latin evidence for the Indo-European long-vowel preterit. Do students really need the knowledge of Proto-Indo-European ablaut series to understand Old English strong verbs? 00 Hardcover Trends in linguistics; studies and monographs; 183 PD361 Mailhammer expands upon his work on morphological and etymological study if Germanic strong verbs by investigating Germanic, the common ancestor to all Germanic languages, centering on the topological position of ablaut in comparison to the parent language, which is Indo-European, the high degree of uniformity and organization, the fusion process involved in the language's genesis. |
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