Re: [tied] Ablaut and accent

From: P&G
Message: 21242
Date: 2003-04-24

>If the deseinence had been syllabic, it would have
> attracted the accent. It didn't, so *-m was not syllabic.

Pardon me, Miguel, but isn't this circular? Didn't you argue a posting or
two ago that the suffix did not take the accent because it was not
syllabic - yet here you say it is not syllabic because it didn't take the
accent?

Or perhaps I misunderstand...

Peter