[Hittite nouns in -a that denote the end of motion are not locatives but sentence doublets. They come partly from accusatives in -an, and in part parallel the dative-locatives in -i, which (cf. Engl. where, here, there) had come to express the end of motion. The dative-locatives in -i and those in -a both continue PIE cases that ended in an i-diphthong. The forms were originally conditioned by the initial sound of the following word. Subsequently the analogic extension of the -a form was favored in expressions of the end of motion by the fact that this was the only function common to the accusative and the dative-locative.

The construction is particularly frequent in proper names; and as the form resembles Babylonian proper names, the result has been the constant appearance of Hittite proper nouns in Accadian texts under what seems to be the form of their stem.]

[Discussion of words cognate with: 1. Skt. gandha-; 2. Lith. našlỹs; 3. OIr. dorn; 4. NHG Iltis; 5. Ch. SI. mlěko.]

This bibliography was compiled primarily for the purpose of making the rather scattered bits of more or less reliable information regarding the pronunciation of English in the various parts of the United States more readily accessible, but also to show how little actual work has been done and how much remains to be done before we shall have even an imperfect picture of American pronunciation. Incidentally the compiler could point out that our most widely used dictionaries have made little effort to utilize what work has been done and persist in presenting a largely fictitious ‘correct pronunciation’.

[Effort to define these terms and their relation to each other. Stress is laid on the fact that each has both a phonetic and a semantic aspect, neither of which must be unduly emphasized.]