Re: [tied] Slavic accentology: "Pedersen's Law"

> From: whetex_lewx [mailto:whetex_lewx@...]

> Nonsense. Dukte:~ is the same as a woman - "mo~teris" and mother -
> mo~te:, mo~tina.

<móteris>, <móte:>, <mótina> with *acute*. What pitch accent do Tels^is^kiai
have in these words?

> Proto-Baltic form was *dukter-is, *dukter-eis (compare with
> Z^emaitian dukter-(e:)s and dukter-eis.

Please read any elementary introduction to historical grammar of Lithuanian,
for instance, Zinkevic^ius' "LietuviuN kalbos istorine: gramatika". And
think twice before you write "nonsense" -- your native speaker's status
cannot compensate for the lack of basic knowledge of Lithuanian historical
phonology and morphology (as well as the lack of a general linguistic
background).

Sergei