TY - JOUR TI - The Development of PIE Initial Iota in Greek – Reevaluation of Evidence in Context of Typological Data (Part 2) AU - Nowak, Szymon TI - The Development of PIE Initial Iota in Greek – Reevaluation of Evidence in Context of Typological Data (Part 2) AB - In the following paper selected Greek words with initial zd- or h-, which could have developed from Proto-Indo-European initial Hi̭ or i̭-, are analyzed. In the first part the position of the Greek language within the Indo-European family, the Laryngeal Theory and the history of research on the development of initial glide (H)i̭-- in Greek are commented on. In the main segment, divided between the two parts of the paper, the criteria of the selection of the Greek words are put forward and the selected thirteen words analyzed in the light of the development of their initial segments. In the second part, the conclusions made on the basis of the analysis are confronted with theories on scenarios of relative chronology of the sound changes. Finally, typological data is adduced to favour one of the possible scenarios of changes. VL - 2019 IS - Volume 136, Issue 3 PY - 2019 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 221 EP - 226 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.19.018.11063 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/the-development-of-pie-initial-iota-in-greek-reevaluation-of-evidence-in-context-of-typological-data-part-2 KW - Greek KW - laryngeal KW - phonology KW - glide KW - typology