Re: [tied] e/o

Piotr:

>Because they originally carried sentence accent. It's a matter of
>relative chronology. Nouns like *wog^Hos were formed from verbs like
>*weg^He- at a rather early time, when accent-to-quality rules were
>still productive. Denominal verbs like *wog^Heje-, on the other hand,
>are relatively young and so preserve the vocalism of their bases. I
>haven't got a good theory about the origin of *-o-presents including
>the stative conjugation, but ask again later -- I'll think of
>something :)

Well, I'm pretty happy with my idea of early vowel harmony for
stative conjugation, but you got me interested in this idea now. I'll
think about it.

- gLeN



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