Re: [tied] Re: More Slavic accentology

On 04-12-09 17:34, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> The PIE accentuation is reflected in Skt. -(i)ká-, Grk.
> -(i)kó-. There was no PIE *-íko-, as far as I know.
> I see no reason to think there ever was a change in position
> of the ictus from PIE *-ikóm to Slavic -Icé. Lithuanian
> must have retracted the accent.

I wonder if the *i of *-ikó- isn't an allele of the thematic vowel (at
least when it forms diminutives of thematic stems); the suffix would
then be analysable as *-o- + *-kó-. Of course if the reduced quality
*-i- arises in metrically weak positions in the first place, the stress
will normally remain on the final syllable.

Piotr