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Szemerenyi review of burrow the problem of shwa in sanskrit

Sonderdruck aus KRATYLOS KRITISCHES BERICHTSUND REZENSIONSORGAN FDR INDOGERMANISCHE UND ALLGEMEINE SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT JAHRGANG DR LUDWIG REICHERT VERLAG WIESBADEN C SZEMERENYI Burrow Problem of shwa in Sanskrit AhschlieBend bleibt noch ein Wort des Dankes an J Narten die sich der mUhevollen Aufgabe die Herausgabe dieser kleinen Schriften zu Ubernehmen mit Anerkennung unterzogen hat Ihr wird sich der Benutzer fur die BeifUgung von Indizes - die ein bequemes und schnelleres Nachschlagen ermoglichen besonders verp ichtet fuhlen Endlich gilt es dem Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag fur die geschmackvolle Ausstattung der heiden Bande zu danken Weinbergsweg D- Bad Homburg v d H Werner Thomas Burrow T homas The problem of shwa in Sanskrit Oxford The Clarendon Press X S Geb ? One of the basic tenets of Indo-European IE phonology has been for more than a hundred years now that the weakened form of low and middle long vowels e called shwa was a in all IE lan- guages except Indo-Iranian where it appears as i even the appearance of the laryngeals changed nothing in the essence of this doctrine The foundations of this view were ?rst seriously challe ged by Thomas Burrow from for almost a quarter-century Boden Professor of Sanskrit in Oxford In a paper published in Shwa in Sanskrit TPhS - he rejected the alleged implications of some of the hallowed equations of the IE lexicon such as Lat pater Skt pitar- Lat status Skt sthitas and advanced two propositions ?rst Indian arid Iranian i has never any other origin but IE i and second the weakened form of Skt ii is the same as that of a it is elided This means that the shwa is to be abandoned altogether This hypothesis was adopted in and came to the notice of a wider public through B 's The Sanskrit language f not f as is stated here p In due course see especially B 's contribution to the Kuiper Festschrift - a further important point was added the weakened grade is represented not only by nil e g da-dii- a mi da-d-mas give the zero grade but also by e g plaknwti strikes from pliik-lpl-ag- the reduced grade It is immaterial for this problem how the situation in Greek with its triple re ex is to be explained but cf Szemerenyi Ein ?ihrung f and F Lindeman The triple representation of Schwa in Greek Oslo - and I am greatly obliged to the author for sending me a copy of his work C SZEMERENYI Burrow Problem of shwa in Sanskrit The work under review represents a synthesis of B 's ideas about the so- called shwa Chapter I - presents a succinct but nonetheless quite detailed summary of the present or rather the de ?nitive version of B 's shwa-theory The main part of the book chapters -V - shows by the corrected interpretation of forms previously wrongly explained away otherwise and on the evidence of many new etymol- ogies previously concealed by mistaken theory that the reduced grade of the