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Word-final vowel shortenings in the Rigveda and the nominative singular of PIE *eh2- and *ih2-stems

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2015
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Litscher, R. (2015). Word-final vowel shortenings in the Rigveda and the nominative singular of PIE *eh2- and *ih2-stems. Indogermanische Forschungen. Zeitschrift Für Indogermanistik Und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 120(1), 297–312. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2015-0015

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The common reconstruction of *eh2- and devī́-type *ih2-stem singular nominatives as *-ah2 (< *-eh2) and -ih2 includes no overt marking of the nonneuter nominative singular. Instead of taking this for granted and searching for a motivation in the history of those stems, we raise the possibility of a reconstruction with overt marking (-āh2, *-īh2). In the second part, the distribution of some word-final vowel shortenings in the Rigveda is analysed in order to determine whether they correlate with the different origins of the vowels or

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  • Litscher, Roland
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120

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1

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297

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312

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English

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2015-10-16

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2019-08-07

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0019-7262

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Litscher, R. (2015). Word-final vowel shortenings in the Rigveda and the nominative singular of PIE *eh2- and *ih2-stems. Indogermanische Forschungen. Zeitschrift Für Indogermanistik Und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 120(1), 297–312. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2015-0015

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