Re: [tied] Re: Lith. Acc.pl.

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:03:23 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

> The working of Saussure's Law is quite shallow, but not absolutely
>automatic on the surface, cf. esp. the plural cases dat. ran~koms, ins.
>ran~komis, loc. ran~kose. These must have been formed in opposition to the
>endstressed forms of the mobile type, z^iemóms (older -omùs), z^iemomìs,
>z^iemosè.

Hmm. Isn't that simply because Saussure's Law doesn't operate across _two_
syllables?


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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