FINAL is due Tuesday May 5 at 4 PM: send it in by email
KNOWN ISSUES with the Final Exam:
Greek questions:
In the
following question, Fortson uses slightly different
terminology (truth to tell, he's probably more precise than I)
than I am used to: find the answer I consider correct here:
http://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/Indo-European/greekMeterNotes.html
11 (or perhaps 12) Greek poetic meter is
structured around syllables that are:
Long/light
Long/short
Long/Heavy
Long/stressed
Indic:
In the following question, the 3rd option should be -i, not
-l.
Word-final PIE laryngeals became what
in Sanskrit?
they disappear with not trace
they turn into -a
They turn into -l
They turn into a glottal stop
Germanic Questions
The following question's answers
have problems that are not Corynne's fault: fix it when you
find the right answer.
14 or perhaps 15:
In Grimm II… (C. Stollerman)
Nasals were
eliminated and replaced with compensatory lengthening
Voiceless stops
turned into voiceless fricatives
Aspirates
disappeared
Voiced stops
turned into voiced fricatives
Germanic Exercises 3e dewk- > tow, tug, etc.
I
would approach it
from both ends of Wiktionary as well as use Fortson: first,
look at *dewk- in Wiktionary
(not always easy to get to that: if you can’t, try tracking
back from a
descendant). Once you find the PIE root, look around and see
the descendants such as tug, tow, zug, etc., and then look up
each of the descendants.
Click around to see how things developed from PIE to PGmc to …
That should give you
an idea of the paths you
are trying to explain each step of.
Then
look in Fortson
for ways to explain each form or change.