Re: [tied] Re: PIE Punctual and Durative, correction, full quote

On 2006-12-30 16:31, tgpedersen wrote:

> BTW if the motivation for deriving thematics from athematics was to
> replace mobile-stress paradigms with fixed-stress ones, eg. by new
> learners (mobile stress isn't making Russian any easier to learn!),
> that need would have been eliminated in the aorist by the presence of
> the always-stressed augment.

The accent on the augment was a matter of PHRASAL stress, and had no
effect on the vocalism of the verb (which was the same as in the
augmentless injunctive). The pattern was like this:

Without the augment: *kWért, *kWrént
With the augment: *é kWert, *é kWrent

Piotr