title: SHORTENING OF THE LONG CONSONANTS IN DANISH AND WEST GERMANIC LANGUAGES
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Kuzmenko, Yury
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-02-15T15:00:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-02-15T15:00:48Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kuzmenko Yu. K. Shortening of the long consonants in Danish and west Germanic languages. Scandinavian Philology, 2017, vol. 15, issue 2, pp. 223–247.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2017.205
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9137
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The original Common Germanic long consonants as well as the long consonants
  developed in different Old Germanic languages were shortened in the Middle
  Germanic period (12th–16th c.). Due to inconsistency of Old and Middle Germanic
  orthography one has to rely on modern data in order to answer the question about
  the history of long consonants. Modern Danish and the West Germanic languages are
  characterised by a correlation of syllable cut (or syllable contact) with short vowels
  only in closed syllables. In words with close contact (CVC, CVCV(C)) the morpheme
  final consonant cannot be separated by syllable boundary from the preceding root
  vowel (Dan. falde /falǝ/, Ger. fallen /falǝn/, Dut. vallen /falǝ/). The morpheme final
  consonants do not have any syllable initial features. At the previous stage of these
  languages, which remains in Scandinavian languages (exept Danish) and in some High
  German and Frisian dialects, the second part of a long consonant has a clear syllable
  initial character, cf. Shw. falla /fal-la/. The shortening of the long consonants in Danish
  and in the West Germanic languages is explained in the article within the framework
  of Mel’nikov’s hypothesis about language as a self-adjusting system, with the possibility
  to rebuild the system in accordance with a certain task. Thus, the long consonants in
  the Danish and West Germanic language have lost their morpheme final and syllable
  initial part in order to provide the coincidence of syllable and morpheme boundaries
  in close contact words. Close contact is a very productive syllable type in modern
  Germanic languages (especially in English and Danish) and a lot of original open
  contact words have changed to that type of contact. This development together with
  some other changes (increasing difference between syllable (and morpheme) initials
  and finals and the development of tones) has led to increasing similarity between the
  Germanic languages with the correlation of syllable cut and the syllabic languages of
  South-East Asia.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Работа выполнена при поддержке гранта Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований 2017–2019 гг. № 17-04-00360.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 15; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical prosody of the Germanic languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: West Germanic languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of long consonants
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: typology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: SHORTENING OF THE LONG CONSONANTS IN DANISH AND WEST GERMANIC LANGUAGES
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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