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The alleged "lengthened" grades in the roots of some Latin nouns

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013

Abstract

The article is concerned with Latin primary deverbative nouns whose lengthened root vowel is non-standard. In all the studied cases, the lengthening concerns the words with the roots ending in a voiced occlusive.

Building on the analysis carried out in this article, the hypothesis is proposed that the vowel lengthening is a result of the shift of original accent from the final syllable.