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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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

Point taken.
On the other hand the fixed stress on the augment would have prevented
anyone from placing it on the thematic vowel.


Torsten