Re: [TIED] Re: [cybalist] paradigms

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 8:06 AM

Subject: [TIED] Re: [cybalist] paradigms

 

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From: Guillaume JACQUES

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 11:17 AM

Subject: [cybalist] paradigms

This rather pedantic five-class taxonomy of accent movements was initiated by F. B. J. Kuiper and fully developed by Karl Hoffman, then popularised by his Erlangen School disciples (Eichner, Schindler) and adopted by Helmut Rix of Freiburg.

 

The types are as follows (they are fully distinguishable for "binomial stems" analysed as consisting of a root plus a suffix):

 

(1) acrostatic: fixed accent on the root syllable (*wékWos : *wékWes-os);

(2) proterokinetic: accent alternating between the root and the suffix (*gón-u : * g(e)n-óu-s);

(3) amphikinetic: accent alternating between the root and the inflectional ending (*pód-es: *ped-óm);

(4) hysterokinetic: accent throughout on the last syllable (*p@...:r : *p@...);

(5) mesostatic: fixed accent on the suffix (*dHeus-ó-s, *dHeus-ó-i).

 

Some people (following Rix) use this terminology substituting "-dynamic" for "-kinetic/-static". Truth to tell, I'm not particularly fond of descriptive classification for its own sake, when you place things in pigeonholes but don't really explain anything. It's a bit like classifying animals with regard to the number of legs, so that snakes and earthworms end up in the same taxon. I think there were in fact two major classes of inflected words in PIE: static (immobilised) and mobile, with subtypes which owed their existence to caprices of sound change and analogical processes.

 

Piotr

 

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To piotr, sergeju and anybody IEnistically learned on the list :

 

Could you provide us (I think Glen is as interested as me) a clear account of the different types of accentuation in IE paradigms (proterokinetic, hysterokinetic etc... there are five of them I guess) from Kuiper and Schindler's theory. I find these terms often cited in articles, but I couldn't find a detailed explanation with full examples of it.

 

 

GJ

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