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The Unaccented Vowels of Proto-Norse.
(NOWELE: Supplement Volumes, 11.) By Martin Syrett. Odense: University Press, 1994. Pp. 323. Dkr. 300.
This reworked dissertation presents a wide-ranging review of what the title says, but not in a form for beginners--nor even for the more advanced but faint-hearted. Syrett presents his version of the Stand der Forschung in major sections: 1) "Questions of method and the nature of the evidence," 2) "The reconstruction of proto-Norse," 3) "Nominal short stem vowels in final syllables," 4) "Nominal stem vowels in composition syllables, 5) "Nominal long stem vowels in final syllables, 6) "Problems with length," 7) "Formational suffixes" (including the la-, ga-, du-, ...
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