The origin and spread of the ‘i-mutation’ paradigm and the prehistory of the Luwic nominal stem classes

• Stefan Norbruis ^[1]
  1. [1] Leiden University

     Leiden University

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 131, 2018, págs. 11-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this article it is argued that the Luwic paradigm known as ‘i-mutation’ originated in ablauting i-stems, which lost the oblique suffix by sound law and spread categorically, through the identity of the oblique cases, initially to the consonant stems, and later to the o-stems. The ā-stems, which are argued to survive as a class not only in Lycian but also in Luwian, escaped the spread because their oblique cases were not identical. The same goes for the u-stems, except in those cases where the stem vowel was consonantal