Amanda Babcock Furrow skrev:
> As an exercise in naturalistic sound change design, I'm
> trying to implement the sound change rules for Early
> Slavic through Proto-Slavic as described in Frederik
> Kortlandt's "From Proto-Indo-European to Slavic", but I am
> finding some of them too vague to usefully implement. For
> example, in his section 5.6 "final s" goes to h, but then
> in 5.9 we encounter "raising before final s". Apart from
> the issue of where these final s's come from that are
> conditioning the raising, I am unable to tell from the
> relevant paragraph which vowels are raising, and to what
> they have been raised.
>
> In short, does anyone know where I can find these rules
> already written in X -> Y / Z_ format? Or is this period
> of the development of Slavic still more art than science,
> with no sufficiently clear sound change rules having been
> established to support such a formalization?

It just ain't the comparatist habit to use such notation,
but the book by Carlton listed below is pretty clear anyway
(Because it is meant to be a freshman course).

I've been trying to digest the contents into Henrik's SCH
format, which is based on the X -> Y / Z_ format, with
additional sections for Slvanjek and Chuzhde of course, but
haven't had the time so far.

<http://www.theiling.de/downloads/schcompile-1.0003.tgz>

Contains manual/syntax description. (Henrik, you should
really make the manual available in non-compressed format!)

An example:

<http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s25/gmp25.sch>

> Thanks, Amanda
>

Terence R. Carlton "Introduction to the Phonological History
of the Slavic Languages"

worldcat.org: <http://tinyurl.com/25b83u> bookfinder.com:
<http://tinyurl.com/277dty>

Also, not seen by me:

"Common and comparative Slavic : phonology and
inflection : with special attention to Russian, Polish,
Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian" by Charles Edward
Townsend; Laura A Janda

worldcat.org: <http://tinyurl.com/2f4xw6> bookfinder.com:
<http://tinyurl.com/27x459>

Both perhaps unincidentally from the same publisher...



/BP 8^)>
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