The prehistory of the Slavic clusters st in the diachronic context

Authors

ŠEFČÍK Ondřej

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Slavia Occidentalis
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/so.2020.77.8
Keywords clusters sibilant + t; phonemic trajectory; spirantization; affricativization; depalatalization; Common Slavic
Description The paper aims at the four different sources of the Slavic clusters st and analyses them in the diachronic contexts according to their origins (< IE *st, *št, *?t, *Tt). The IE cluster *st is fully preserved, the late IE cluster *št is depalatalized as is the sat?m-cluster *?t (which has merged with *št in almost all sat?m-languages). The cluster *Tt regularly developed into st in Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian (and Greek), into 0s in Albanian and u?t in Armenian – the Armenian development forces us to prefer the spirantization trajectory of the development of this cluster (as stated earlier by Bartholomae for Indo-Iranian) over the traditional “Brugmannian” affricativization trajectory.
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