Re: [tied] Re: Slavic ptc.praes.act.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:38:35 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
<mcv@...> wrote:

>In the participle (*-onts), the nasal was protected by the
>/t/, which also kept the vowel from lengthening: *-an~ts >
>*-aN~ts > -aN~s (with circumflex nasal diphthong).
>
>Something similar may indeed have happened in Slavic. []
>If the /t/ of the ptc. was lost early on, we should have:
>*-onts > *-ants > *-ans and further with raising *-uNh, with
>lengthening before -Rh -u:Nh > *-u:N > *-u: > -y (and in the
>soft stems *-jans > *-juNh > *-ju:Nh (> *-jo:Nh) > *-je:Nh >
>*-jê/*-jeN).
>
>On the other hand, if the /t/ remained until _after_ the
>raisings (but was lost before the lengthening: both nesy and
>nesa have long endings after all), we would have: *-ants >
>*-aNts > *-aNs > *-a:Nh, with a long nasal /a:N/ (or /o:N/,
>see below), corresponding to Kortlandt's /aN/, which might
>conceivably have given /a/

A similar blocking effect (but by *h1) would explain the
lack of raising before -s in the opt (> imp) 2sg. *-ojh1s >
*-ajh1s, which does *not* develop like the o-stem ins.pl
(*-ojs > *-ajs, and then with raising *-ujh and lengthening
*-u:jh > *-u: > -y), but instead gives -i (like the o-stem
Npl. *-oj > *-aj > -i). The laryngeal blocks raising of the
vowel before -s (-h), after which both the laryngeal and the
-s (-h) disappear, leaving *-aj to develop like the
homophonic o-stem Npl. (and, curiously, unlike the subtly
different loc.sg. *-ai and the n. NA du. *-aih1 > -ê).

The dative is PIE -õi, which gives Lith. *-uõi, with long
diphthong shortening -ui; and Slavic, with circumflex
raising -u:i, long diphthong shortening -ui, which then
becomes -u&/-ue/-uo/-ua (we can write ô, like ê = /i&/ ~
/ie/ ~ /io/ ~ /ia/), and finally ô > u.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...