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Meillet's law is a Common Slavic accent law, named after the French Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, who discovered it. According to the law, Slavic words have a circumflex on the root vowel (i.e., the first syllable of a word) with a Balto-Slavic acute if that word had a mobile accent paradigm in Proto-Slavic and Proto-Balto-Slavic. Compare: * acute on Lithuanian ''gálvą'', accusative singular of mobile-paradigm ''galvà'' 'head', vs. circumflex in Slavic (Serbo-Croatian ''glȃvu'', Slovenian ''glavô'', Russian ''gólovu'') * acute on Lithuanian ''sū́nų'', accusative singular of mobile-paradigm ''sūnùs'' 'son', versus circumflex in Slavic (Serbo-Croatian ''sȋn'', Slovenian ''sîn'') Meillet's law should most probably be interpreted as polarization of accentual mobility in Slavic, due to which accent in the words with mobile accentuation had to be on the first ''mora'', instead on the first syllable (in places in paradigm with initial accent). This is the reason in the words belonging to mobile paradigms in Slavic accent shifts from the first syllable to the proclitic, e.g. Russian accusative singular of mobile-paradigm ''gólovu'', but ''ná golovu'' 'on the head', Serbo-Croatian ''glȃvu'', but ''nȁ glāvu''. ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meillet's law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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