Re: Slavic accentology

From: pielewe
Message: 38543
Date: 2005-06-12

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

[On the accentuation of:]

> >*volja-type nouns,
>
> Stang's solution is to derive these from a.p. b volI'-ja >
> vòl(I)ja > vòlja.



That solution can't be correct because there is no shred of evidence of
the presence of a *I in those nouns. I've never understood what on
earth caused Stang to make this elementary blunder, which would be
embarrassing in an undergraduate term paper.


Willem