Lithuanian

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 44688
Date: 2006-05-24

Can anyone recommend to me a good book which describes the phonological processes that have occurred in Lithuanian, and which would be readily available at any library or university?  I especially want to know about the change of IE *ei and *oi to ie in most words but to ei and ai in some words, and whether IE *eu regularly became iau or rather simply au.  I also would like a better understanding of the accentual system and its origins, and what it says about the former presence of laryngeals, contraction, elision, etc., especially in grammatical morphemes (as opposed to lexical morphemes).  Also whether o always goes back to *a: (*eh2) or not sometimes to *o: or an *o: due to Winter's Law.
 
Thanks,
 
Andrew

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