Re: Alternating foot

> But they want to go away and will, if you don't remove the preceding
> word, in which case they will grudgingly settle for an *o.
>
>
> > > In root nouns the stress has nowhere to go. No wonder it causes
> > > trouble.
> >
> > Why not? It can go to the ending, even in biconsonantal root
> > nouns. The fact that the root becomes asyllabic when the accent
> > is shifted is no problem in PIE, cf. root verbs like
> > *h1és-ti/*h1s-énti (pres.) or *kWer-t/*kWr-ént (aor. inj.).
>
> *e-o- is my story, and I'll stick to it.
>
>
> > > Note BTW that amphikinetic stems have *CéCoCC-, *CCCéC-.
> > > Now if we see an acrostatic root in its totality with a
> > > preceding noun, we might get the same: *CéC-CoCC-, *CC-CCéC-.

One idea would be that their "normal state" was as last member in
compounds of the type CVC-V-CVC, which would be amphikinetic:
*CéC-o-CC, *CC-CéC and when deprived of the preceding root would
settle for *CoC-, *CeC-. But that would depend on the pattern of
inflection for compounds, which I don't know what is. Does someone?


Torsten