Barber P.J. Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 464 p. — (Oxford Classical Monographs)Comprehensive approach to the data and evidence
Chronological sensitivity
Includes an index of all evidence from all languages cited
Extensive cross-referencingThis book investigates how semivowels were realized in Indo-European and in early Greek. More specifically, it examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what respects their alternation was predictable, and how this situation changed as Indo-European developed into Greek.
The comprehensive and chronologically sensitive nature of this study, together with its careful assessment of what is inherited and what is innovative, enables substantive conclusions to be drawn regarding the behaviour of semivowels at various stages in the history of Greek and in Indo-European itself.Readership: For students and scholars interested in classical studies, Indo-European studies, and linguistics.Evidence for Sievers' Law and the Possibility oh Inheritance:Sievers' Law: Gothic and Vedic
Chronology and Inheritance
Greek Nominal Categories:
Sievers' Law in Greek
Evidence from *-ye/o Nominals
Verbal Categories:
Preliminary Considerations
Greek *-ye/o- Verbs
Conclusions