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«Glottalic Theory» and Greek saqarTvelos mecnierebaTa erovnuli akademiis moambe, t. 5, #2, 2011 BULLETIN OF THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, vol. 5, no. 2, 2011 Linguistics «Glottalic Theory» and Greek Thomas V. Gamkrelidze Academy Member, Tbilisi, Georgian National Academy of Sciences ABSTRACT. The principle of typological plausibility, both synchronic and diachronic, of a postulated model for a proto-language provides a new approach to comparative linguistic studies and calls for a revision of traditional views on reconstructed proto-linguistic systems, in particular of those on Proto-Indo-European and its daughter dialects. The article deals with PIE stop transformations in Ancient Greek. © 2011 Bull. Georg. Natl. Acad. Sci. Key words: typological plausibility, reconstructed proto-linguistic systems. On the basis of comparative and typological evidence, to be totally different from those traditionally assumed. the “classical” threefold system of Proto-Indo-European The archaic Proto-Indo-European stop inventory appears stops must be given a phonetic reinterpretation, whereby to be closer to those of languages traditionally viewed as the traditional “plain voiced stops” should be viewed as having undergone later Consonant Shift “glottalized”. (Lautverschiebung: Grimm’s Law) – Germanic, Armenian, The stop series in the new interpretation must be Hittite... Languages traditionally considered defined as: I. glottalized; II. voiced (aspirate); III. voice- phonologically conservative (and especially Old Indian) less (aspirate), where aspiration is a phonetically relevant prove thus to have undergone complex phonemic trans- but phonemically redundant feature. This revision of the formations in their consonantism. The typological ap- consonantism is known in current Indo-European Com- proach to linguistic reconstruction necessitates, indeed, parative Studies as “Glottalic Theory” and considered a a radical reinterpretation of all the basic work in Compara- new Paradigm in Indo-European Linguistics: tive Indo-European Linguistics. One could recall in this connection Winfred P. Lehmann’s words: “What had Reinterpretation of the PIE system of stops seemed one of the most solid achievements of the 19th century linguistics is now modified in every section”... Traditional System Glottalic System I II III I II III * * * h h h h (p’) b p (p’) b /b p /p In the light of the Glottalic Theory the diachronic t’ d h th t’ d h /d t h/t phonemic transformations undergone by Ancient Greek may be described in the following way: K’ Gh Kh K’ Gh/G Kh/K Greek belongs to the group of Ancient Indo-Euro- The Glottalic Theory takes a new look at the Proto- pean dialects that shifted the Indo-European glottalizied Indo-European linguistic model and its diachronic trans- series to voiced stops; other such dialects are Celtic, Italic, formations into the historical Indo-European languages. and Balto-Slavic. (cf. typologically the attested phonetic Upon the glottalic analysis these transformations prove shift of glottalized consonants into respective voiced © 2011 Bull. Georg. Natl. Acad. Sci. 134 Thomas V. Gamkrelidze stops in a number of historic languages with glottalized the system. The result is that the gaps that are typologi- consonants). Greek reflects the original glottalized series cally impermissible are filled, and the resultant system is as b, d, g. In typologically regular fashion, the resultant consistent with synchronic typological regularities. This voiced series fills the originally defective labial slot with b can be shown by comparing Greek b and g: g is far less from a variety of sources: frequent in onomatopoetic and borrowed words than is b. There are occasional instances of voicing of original In Greek, after Series I had been voiced, the velar g that voiceless *ph, which must be relatively ancient in Greek: continued the dorsal stops of that series had the status of cf. bóskō ‘(I) herd, feed; graze’, botēr ‘herdsman’, bósis marked member of the series. A b, the unmarked member ‘food, fodder’ (‘pastum’), boú-botos ‘cow pasture’, be- of the voiced series, was required in the system by the side Lat. pāscō ‘(I) herd’, pāstor ‘herdsman’, Hitt. pahs^ - universal implicational laws for voiced consonants. The ‘defend’, Skt. pâti ‘defends’. language begins an intensive process of filling the Also ancient is the change of initial *mr-, *ml- to br-, unmotivated gap in its system by forming new words or bl-: Gk. brotós ‘mortal’, ámbrotos ‘immortal’, ambrosía assimilating foreign borrowings. ‘food of the immortals’, beside Arm. mard ‘mortal’, Skt. The development of the Indo-European Series II of mrtá- ‘dead’, OPers. martiya-, Avest. m@r@ta-(Thieme stops – voiced and allophonically aspirated – in Greek, as 1952:24ff.); Gk. brakhús ‘short’ beside Avest. m@r@zu- in Italic, Celtic, and Balto-Slavic, involves significant pho- ‘short’, Goth, ga-maúrgjan ‘shorten’, OHG murg(i) netic changes, which resulted in phonological ‘short’: PIE *mrGh-u-; Gk. blítto ‘(I) get honey from restructurings. The phonetic changes are largely explained hive’ from *mlittō, cf. Gk. méli ‘honey’, Hitt. melit ‘honey’. by the phonetic nature of voiced aspirates. The conso- In post-Mycenean Greek another source of b is the nants known as voiced aspirates can be phonetically former labiovelar *gw from *K’o: Gk. boûs ‘bull’ (Myc. qo- characterized as involving a position of the glottis that is u-ko-ro ‘bull herder’, Gk. boukóloi), Arm. kov, Skt. gáu, not typical of plain voiced or plain voiceless consonants. OIcel. kýr, OE cū, Toch. A ko; Gk. baíno ‘(I) go’, Skt. gā- The original voiced aspirated allophones of the stops ‘go’ (3sg. jígāti ‘he goes’), Latv. gãju ‘I went’; Gk. bíos of Series II shift to respective voiceless aspirated units, ‘life’, Skt. gáyah ‘clan property’, jīváh ‘alive’, Avest. gayō while the unaspirated allophones of the PIE stops of the ‘life’, Lat. uīuus ‘alive’, Arm. keam ‘(I) live’. same Series merge with the voiceless phonemes of the Another important source was foreign borrowings. PIE voiceless Series III, causing thus loss of aspiration in These can be dated to a fairly early period in Greek: cf. Gk. its aspirated allophones. baris ‘Egyptian type of flat-bottomed boat’ (the source Such a merger of allophonic series means, at the same of Lat. barca), Late Egyptian br, Copt. bari; Gk. bátos, a time, phonemic split of the PIE Series II (i.e. voiced stops measure of liquid, Hebr. bat; Gk. bdéllion ‘bdel­lium’, cf. with aspirated & unaspirated allophones) into two pho- Hebr. bedōla; Gk. búblos ‘papyrus’, cf. Phoen. gbl, nemic series of voiceless stops – an aspirated (II) and an Akkad. Gublu ‘Byblos’, Hebr. Gebāl (the initial g was re- unaspirated (III) that were opposed in Greek to Series I placed in Greek by b before another b); Gk. beta , letter (coming from PIE glottalized stops). name: West Semitic *bet, etc. Other ancient loans are baítē The phonetically natural devoicing of the voiced as- ‘herder’s clothing of animal skins’, cf. Alb. petkë, petëk pirated allophones of Series II in Greek could have led to ‘dress’ (possibly from Thracian); békos ‘bread’, from the devoicing of the unaspirated allophones, as well. The Phrygian according to Herodotus. devoicing probably began with the aspirated allophones An important source of Greek b was onomatopoetic of this series and later also affected the unaspirated formations, such as bárbaros “barbarian”, baǘzō ‘(I) cry,, allophones. The spread of devoicing to the unaspirated bark’, babrázō (a verb denoting the sound of dragonfly allophones would have been facilitated when voiced wings), bambaínô ‘(I) chatter, babble’, and others. It is unaspirated allophones appeared in the same word as a interesting to note that the majority of onomatopoetic phoneme of the same series in its aspirated allophonic formations and loans in Greek have b. This is a manifesta- form. Then the phonetic devoicing of the voiced aspi- tion of a universally valid tendency to give priority in rates would produce simultaneous devoicing of an borrowings to forms containing phonological units, which unaspirated allophone in the same word. are, for historical reasons, absent (or infrequent) in the Thus the devoicing of the two allophones of Series II borrowing language, but are typologically required by in Greek can be seen phonetically as an assimilative Bull. Georg. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 5, no. 2, 2011 «Glottalic Theory» and Greek 135 change of a voiced aspirate and voiced non-aspirate within positionally aspirated) stops and also from devoicing the same syntagmatic unit. In this we can see the opera- of the unaspirated allophones of Series II). As a result, tion in Greek of the Proto-Indo-European principle that the plain voiceless series of Greek includes both the stops within a single word must be homogeneous in voic- reflexes of the PIE Series III and some of the reflexes of ing. The result of this combinatorily conditioned process Series II (specifically, the reflexes of its voiced was simultaneous devoicing of both allophones of the unaspirated allophones). voiced Series II and their subsequent redistribu­tion in Thus, the assumed complex diachronic transforma- the Greek phonological system*. tions of the PIE three-series-system of stops transform As a result of the changes described above, the Greek the original system into essentially different phonemic phonological system gets a three-series-system of stops in Greek that can be described three-stop-series: voiced b, d, g (from the Indo-Eu- in terms of phonemic split & phonemic merger of the origi- ropean ejectives), voice­less aspirated ph, th, kh (from nal PIE system. the Indo-European voiced aspirates), and plain voice- The changes undergone by the Proto-Indo-European less p, t, k (from the Indo-European voiceless (and stops series in Greek are shown in the following Table: Derivation of the Greek System from Proto-Indo-European PIE I II III (p’) bh/b ph/p t’ dh/d th/t K’ Gh/G Kh/K Greek b ph p h d t t h g k k * The Greek aspirated series ph, th, kh, which regularly reflects the allophones of Proto-European Series II *bh, *dh, *gh, also includes occasional instances of the reflexes of the plain Series III, with aspiration preserved for reasons that are not entirely clear.
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