Jay H. Jasanoff: The prehistory of the Balto-Slavic accent

Abstract

Harvard Indo-europeanist Jay Jasanoff’s book, The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent, is primarily devoted to the question of how the Proto-Indo-European accent system evolved into that of Common Balto-Slavic, as well as Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic taken separately. I will discuss the book in terms of how useful it is for a student or specialist in the field of Slavic linguistics.