La vocalización de las sonantes indoeuropeas en griego

Abstract

This paper is a critical survey of recent work on vocalization of Indo-European resonants after some authors having pointed at the deficiencies of the traditional hypothesis on this issue. After examining the location of the anaptyctic vowel an effort is made to find the conditions in which the Pan-Hellenic vocalization in u and i took place. Concerning the a/o vocalization the views of Meillet, Morpurgo, Ruijgh, Mühlestein, Georgiev, Adrados, O’Neil, Wyatt, Strunk, Bader and Moralejo are analyzed and a phonetical and phonological interpretation of the problem is proposed. Finally Heubeck’s theory on conservation of *ṛ in Mycenaean is criticized following Adrados and Moralejo and adding new arguments: existence of u vocalization in Mycenaean, unlikelihood of the relative chronology of this phenomenon with regard to other phenomena, loss of *H₂ in such sequences as *rH₁, *rH₂ and the treatment of the group *ri̯.