Re: [tied] Ablaut and accent

Miguel:

>No, but it follows from the fact that the accusative singular is a
>strong case. If the deseinence had been syllabic, it would have
>attracted the accent. It didn't, so *-m was not syllabic.

This only works by a sheer assumption that syllabics (with as few
rules as possible) has to do with accent. Since I don't see
evidence for this and the solution isn't even very efficient, I
reject it outright.


- gLeN


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