In The Indo-European Syllable Andrew Miles Byrd investigates the process of syllabification
within Proto-Indo-European (PIE), revealing connections to a number of seemingly …

This book reconstructs aspects of linguistic prosody from the medieval records of two closely
related Germanic languages, English and Norse. Evidence is drawn from a series of case …

I examine those linguistic features of Old English and Old Norse which serve as the basic
elements for the metrical systems of those languages. I begin with a critical survey of recent …

Recent research has made significant progress in exploring the effects of “chunking”, the
syntagmatic routinization of collocations. While these effects have mostly been investigated …

One of the most discussed aspects of Old English (OE) metrics is the principle of resolution,
where two syllables may, if the first is “light,” together count as the equivalent of a single …

Motivating Osthoff’s Law in Latin: Diachronic Constraint Stability and Phonological
Innovation Page 1 #aiascs #therealAPA Motivating Osthoff’s Law in Latin: Diachronic …

The Role of Indo-European Studies in the XXIst Century H. Craig Melchert 1. Introduction In
order to assess accurately the posit Page 1 The Role of Indo-European Studies in the XXIst …

Early runic inscriptions are the best evidence for the oldest historical development of North
Germanic. Yet among the many unexpected features of the inscriptions as they are usually …

This work is derived primarily from lecture notes from Indo-European Phonology,
Morphology, and Syntax classes taught at UCLA by H. Craig Melchert and Brent Vine from …