Name: Memoire sur le Systeme Primitif des Voyelles Dans les Langues Indo-Europeennes (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (in French)
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Author: Saussure, Ferdinand De
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portada Memoire sur le Systeme Primitif des Voyelles Dans les Langues Indo-Europeennes (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (in French)

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Physical Book

Author

Ferdinand de Saussure

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2009

Language

French

Pages

326

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN

9781108006590

ISBN13

9781108006590

Synopsis "Memoire sur le Systeme Primitif des Voyelles Dans les Langues Indo-Europeennes (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics) (in French)"

Written in 1878, while the author was a twenty-year-old student in Berlin, Saussure's only full-length work proposed the existence of two additional sonant coefficients in the Indo-European parent language. Applying the methods of comparison and internal reconstruction to Proto-Indo-European, Saussure argued that the long vowels had developed from a short vowel plus a sonant coefficient. A hypothesis far ahead of its time, his proposal was not confirmed until 1927 when a consonantal phoneme etymologically derived from Saussure's A was discovered in newly deciphered Hittite, the oldest attested Indo-European language. Not only is the Mémoire a dramatic demonstration of the method of internal reconstruction, but it also paved the way for further developments in historical phonology including laryngeal theory, and may have stimulated Saussure's later development of structuralism. This reissue includes, as an appendix, Antoine Meillet's 1913 obituary of Saussure.

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