Darya Kavitskaya
List of John Benjamins publications in which Darya Kavitskaya is involved.
Articles
2023 On the reconstruction of contrastive secondary palatalization in Common Slavic Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:2, pp. 220–254 | Article
Contrastive secondary palatalization is a feature typically associated with Slavic. However, this contrast is present only in some contemporary Slavic languages, such as Ukrainian, Eastern Bulgarian, Russian, and Upper and Lower Sorbian. Thus, a question arises as to whether the secondary… read more
2001 Hittite vowel epenthesis and the sonority hierarchy Diachronica 18:2, pp. 267–299 | Article
Summary This study examines the distribution of non-etymological vowels in Hittite and shows that non-etymological a is used in contexts where syllabification problems are not expected, suggesting that a is purely orthographic and brought on only by the practices of the cuneiform writing system.… read more