Block Seminar 2024 | Session 3, Change on a large scale

Topics: Is ‘demorphologisation’ a thing? — Stress system change in Mapudungun — Stress system change in English

Suggested reading: one or more of the following, on ‘demorphologisation’ (a–d), stress change in Mapudungun (e), and stress change in English (f).

(a) Some critique of my 2006 proposal on ‘demorphologisation’ in the prehistory of Greek (for a good summary of the proposal itself, start with Clackson):
• Clackson, J. 2007. Review of P. Probert, Ancient Greek Accentuation: synchronic patterns, frequency effects, and prehistory. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2007/2007.05.10/
• Hawkins, S. 2009. Review of P. Probert, Ancient Greek Accentuation: synchronic patterns, frequency effects, and prehistory. Kratylos 54(1): 98–103. https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/192ecse/cdi_openaire_primary_doi_eeb2fc1892b3493f3bda6cb218220c03
• Fortson, B. 2010. ‘Was there default recessive accent in Greek? Notes on Probert 2006.’ Handout and text from the 29th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Cornell. (To be shared, with kind permission from Ben Fortson.)

(b) Garrett, A. 2011. ‘Verner’s law nominal doublets: bidirectional leveling or accent shift?’ Handout from the 30th East Coast Indo-European Conference, Harvard. (To be shared, with kind permission from Andrew Garrett.)

(c) Sandell, R. 2015. Productivity in Historical Linguistics: Computational Studies in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Word-Formation. Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA, pp. 161–214 (or for a shorter extract, pp. 192–8). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2z1476f8

(d) Yates, A. D. 2015. ‘Anatolian default accentuation and its diachronic consequences’. Indo-European Linguistics 3: 145–87. or  https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/192ecse/cdi_unpaywall_primary_10_1163_22125892_00301002

(e) Molineaux, B. 2018. ‘Pertinacity and change in Mapudungun stress assignment’. International Journal of American Linguistics 84(4): 513–58. or  https://search.library.ucla.edu/permalink/01UCS_LAL/192ecse/cdi_openaire_primary_doi_dedup_fbd47ab5a687c890e46ef94b0adcdcc8

(f) McCully, C. 2003. ‘Left-hand word-stress in the history of English’. In P. Fikkert and H. Jacobs (eds), Development in prosodic systems. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 349–93.

 

To facilitate discussion, please send Professor Probert an email (philomen.probert@wolfson.ox.ac.uk) by 9 p.m. on the day before the seminar if possible, with a note (however brief) of something you found interesting in this reading.