Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Symbols and Abbreviations -- Part 1 Preliminaries -- Chapter 1 An Overview of the Indo-European Sound System -- 1.1 The Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European -- 1.2 The Indo-European Sound System -- 1.2.1 Phonemic Inventory -- 1.2.2 Consonant Clusters -- 1.2.3 Phonological Processes -- 1.3 Indo-European Accent and Ablaut -- Chapter 2 Phonological Theory & Past Views of the Indo-European Syllable -- 2.1 Phonological Frameworks -- 2.1.1 Relevance to IE Phonology -- 2.1.2 Indo-European Conspiracies -- 2.2 Theoretical Assumptions of the Syllable -- 2.3 The Decomposition Theorem -- 2.3.1 Exceptions to the Decomposition Theorem -- 2.3.2 Establishing the Decomposition Theorem as a Linguistic Universal -- 2.3.3 Fine-tuning the Decomposition Theorem -- 2.4 Earlier Views of the Indo-European Syllable -- Part 2 The Proposal -- Chapter 3 The Maximum Syllable Template -- 3.1 Past Uses of the Decomposition Theorem in Indo-European Studies -- 3.2 A First Look at Stray Erasure: Lex Schmidt-Hackstein -- 3.2.1 Evidence and Past Scholarship -- 3.2.2 Counterexamples -- 3.2.3 Hackstein's Syllable-Based Treatment of CHCC > CCC -- 3.3 Deducing Indo-European Syllabification -- 3.3.1 Proto-Indo-European 'Father' -- 3.3.2 Why does *#CHC- simplify to *#CC-? -- 3.3.3 Extrasyllabic Consonants in Coda Position -- 3.3.4 Revisions to CHCC > CCC -- 3.3.5 *RF -- 3.3.6 Extrasyllabicity Test #1: Monosyllabic Lengthening -- 3.3.7 Extrasyllabic Consonants in Onset Position -- 3.3.8 Extrasyllabicity Test #2: Reduplication -- 3.3.9 The Rule of Onset Extrasyllabicity -- 3.4 Review of PIE Extrasyllabicity -- 3.5 The Maximum Syllable Template -- 3.6 The métron Rule -- 3.7 Couching the Analysis in Optimality Theory -- 3.8 Exceptions to the MST? -- 3.9 Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Schindler's Exceptions and the Phonology-Morphology Interface.

4.1 What We Know So Far -- 4.1.1 Keydana 2008: R/C -- 4.1.2 Cooper 2012: Adjusting the Sonority Hierarchy -- 4.1.3 Review -- 4.2 Nasal-infixed Presents: An Overview -- 4.3 The Usual Solution: Syllabification by Analogy -- 4.4 Solution 1: Syllabification as Underlying -- 4.5 Solution 2: Correspondence by Derivation -- 4.6 Solution 3: Invoking the pword (ω) -- 4.7 Solution 4: Syllabification & Syncope -- 4.8 Conclusions -- Part 3 Ramifications -- Chapter 5 Motivating Sievers' Law -- 5.1 Introduction and Overview -- 5.2 Overview of Sievers' Law -- 5.2.1 Evidence in the Daughter Languages -- 5.2.2 Einzelsprachlich or Inherited? -- 5.2.3 Schindler 1977 -- 5.3 Motivating Sievers' Law: The Avoidance of Superheavy Syllables -- 5.3.1 Framework Used in Analysis -- 5.3.2 The Stem Level -- 5.3.3 The Postlexical Level -- 5.3.4 Overgeneration -- 5.4 Consequences of Analysis -- 5.4.1 Advantages -- 5.4.2 Disadvantages -- 5.4.3 Predictions -- 5.5 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Motivating Pinault's Law -- 6.1 Introduction and Overview -- 6.2 The Data -- 6.2.1 Instances of Deletion -- 6.2.2 Instances of Retention -- 6.2.3 Conflicting Data -- 6.2.4 Discussion -- 6.3 Motivating Pinault's Law: The Impossibility of a Palatalized Pharyngeal -- 6.4 Implications -- 6.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 7 The Indo-European Syllable: A Review -- Part 4 Appendices -- Appendix A: Index of Indo-EuropeanRoots & Words -- Appendix B: Proto-Indo-European Edge Phonotactics -- Appendix C: Glossary of Concepts and Constraints -- Appendix D: Research Study on -ic Formations -- References.