@article {Villanueva Svensson:2016:0080-6765:160,
title = "Lithuanian ankst{\‘ı}, art{\‘ı}, tol{\‘ı} and Baltic and Slavic Auslautgesetze",
journal = "Scando-Slavica",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/ssla20",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2016",
volume = "62",
number = "2",
publication date ="2016-07-02T00:00:00",
pages = "160-182",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0080-6765",
eissn = "1600-082X",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ssla20/2016/00000062/00000002/art00004",
doi = "doi:10.1080/00806765.2016.1257767",
keyword = "morphology, Baltic, Lithuanian, final syllables, phonology, Slavic",
author = "Villanueva Svensson, Miguel",
abstract = "The termination of the Lithuanian adverbs ankst{\‘ı}early, art{\‘ı}near, tol{\‘ı}far has not been satisfactorily explained. In this paper it is proposed that it goes back to the Indo-European
-stem loc. sg. *-ah2i by regular sound change: the sequence *-EHi/u was syllabified as *-EHi/u in word-final position (just as in internal position) and gave a Balto-Slavic acute diphthong *-\textasciiacute, *-{\’a}i or *-{\’a}i. In
Lithuanian this is mildly supported by the -stem nom.-acc. du. rank{\‘ı} (ah2-ih1
) and the fossilized loc. du. pusi{\’a}u (oh1u?). This account has important consequences for other issues of Balto-Slavic
historical grammar: i) the double treatment of *-ai in Slavic (> -, -i); ii) the development of the -stem paradigm in both branches; iii) the origin of the adverb ending Lith. lab-a, OCS dobr-; iv) the realization
of word-final (long?) acute and long circumflex diphthongs; v) the sources of East Baltic *.",
}