Re: [tied] Re: Does Saussure's Law Apply Synchronically to Lithuani

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:03:27 +0200, "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Miguel Carrasquer [mailto:mcv@...]
>
>> That doesn't seem work for the Ipl. ran~komis ~ galvomìs, where in the
>mobile
>> form the stressed syllable was not deleted (and stress therefore not
>retracted).
>
>Both Kazlauskas and Jens agree in that in D. pl. the stress was first
>retracted and then the unstressed final syllable was deleted.

Sure. That was wrongly phrased. What I meant was that if *rankómus was turned
into ran~koms because [*]galvomùs became galvóms (plausible in isolation), we
would expect *rankómis to have been unaffected (because galvomìs, not
*galvómis), when in fact we do have ran~komis (without de Saussure).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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