παλίντονος ('palíntonos'): reconstructing the prehistory of accents (Homeric -ειαί, -εια, -υιαί)
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Jesse Lundquist [1]
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[1] University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Oxford District, Reino Unido
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- Localización: Indogermanische Forschungen, ISSN 0019-7262, Nº. 126, 2021, págs. 261-304
- Idioma: alemán
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Resumen
The Ancient Greek feminines to u-stem adjectives (e.g. ἡδεῖα ‘sweet’ to ἡδύς) diverge from their Old Indic counterparts in terms of accentuation (cp. Ved. svādvī´ ). Homeric Greek possesses a couple of corresponding archaisms with oxytone accent (θαμειαί, ταρφειαί); in this paper, I will propose that Greek in fact runs the gamut, showing recessive accentuation as well, specifically in stems that have been “demorphologized” (e.g., λίγεια). This threefold accentuation provides a unique window onto the diachrony of accents in the prehistory of Greek. I bring to bear previously undertreated, and untranslated, evidence from ancient grammarians to bolster my position. Beginning from this reexamination, I turn to the controversial class of nouns in -υια, which have been held to show extraordinarily archaic properties of accent and ablaut. I propose that these nouns reflect not archaisms, but inner-Greek innovations.
