Open AccessLittoral Material with v from b within a Broader Slovenian and Slavic Context
Author(s) -
Metka Furlan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jezikoslovni zapiski
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.265
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1581-1255
pISSN - 0354-0448
DOI - 10.3986/jz.v18i1.2344
Subject(s) - slavic languages , littoral zone , context (archaeology) , alternation (linguistics) , linguistics , order (exchange) , history , geography , ancient history , classics , archaeology , philosophy , geology , oceanography , finance , economics
This article uses examples from the Littoral dialect group that have the phoneme/ grapheme v in place of etymological b in order to determine that sporadic cases of the multidirectional substitution v ⇄ b (e.g., Littoral vedríca ‘hip’ ← *bedrica : Prekmurje grìba ‘mane’ ← gríva), which can be observed quite broadly throughout Slovenian territory, are the remnants of what was probably already the Proto-Slavic (dialect) operative free alternation ⇄ ƀ.