--- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
wrote:
> From Sergei's response, Steps 3, 4 and 7 seem to be too complicated
> to be the synchronic process. It appears that they are now
replaced
> (at least for him) by:
>
> 3'. Certain morphemes retract the accent from a preceding
circumflex
> syllable.
Exactly. As _A grammar of contemporary Lithuanian_ (claiming to be "a
strictly synchronic description") puts it (in my impefect
translation), "... special stress-attracting (_attractive_) endings
can be distinguished, their feature being that they attract a stress
from _directly_ preceding _non-acuted_ syllable by .. synchronic
Saussure's-Fortunatov's law." As simple as that: call them attractive
instead of acuted to make the law synchronuc.
Sergei