Re: [tied] The disappearance of *-s -- The saga continues

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:

> > Some of the verbs however entered the mobile type for some

reason. I can

> > see only the monosyllabic aorist as the causal factor. Those

that retained

> > the phonetically regular falling tone (circumflex) of the

monosyllabic

> > forms of the aorist, joined the mobile type and so acquired the

forms you

> > mention.

> Not very likely. You are supposing that monosyllables (those which

were not

> randomly regularised) influenced randomly other, polysyllabic

verbs and then

> even l-participle? This is highly unlikely especially if one has

knowledge

> of a whole system.

Well, that is already part of the theory. The two are pragmatically
associated as means of expressing the past.

> Shift such as *do``govoril7 - *dogovori:la' has it's
> paralels in other parts of the system. It can hardly be analogical

after

> aorist as you put it...

It is simply the way mobility works (between the extremes). It can
be analogical on any mobile form that qualifies.

> Anyway, I think that attestions of Slavic lgs are definitely more

important

> for the reconstruction of ProtoSlavic than what we think should

happen with

> it if we derive it from PIE.

The art is to bridge the gap. This was done for the first time by
Illic^-Svityc^ and Dybo who added the last missing link explaining
type b. Now we can observe full continuity.

Jens