Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> >
> > My point is that, even before Pedersen's law (i.e. the transfer

of

> > mobility to the V-stems) and Hirt's law (which I had hitherto
> > considered to be the oldest Balto-Slavic soundlaws), there was
> > another soundlaw which shifted the accent forward to a long vowel

in

> > the ending. Sort of like a primordial de Saussure's law, except

that

> > it doesn't work on lengths produced by laryngeals. The effect of
> > such a law would be to prepare the ground for Pedersen's law, as

it

> > makes almost all (non-neuter) athematic nouns have an end-

stressed

> > nominative singular (h2akmó:n as well as dHugHté:r) and a non-end-
> > stressed accusative singular (h2ákmonim and dHugHtérim [later
> > polarized to dHúgHterim]).
>
> Doesn't it also give you *mogóN, *móz^esI free of charge, so to

speak

> (with some tweaking, ie. that *-oN <- *-oH)

As I said: "it doesn't work on lengths produced by laryngeals".

The law doesn't work on the 1sg. of thematic verbs, as shown by the
a.p. c 1sg. (e.g. be``roN).

The verb *mogti is a special case. It started out as barytone (one of
the few, if not the only, verb that was always a.p. I: most of the
others became a.p. I only after Hirt's law). By Dybo's law, it must
have shifted to mogóN, *moz^és^I. No other verb in Slavic showed this
accent pattern, so it was analogically levelled to the usual model
for a.p. b verbs, yielding mogóN, mòz^es^I, but with lengthening in
Czech (mohu, móz^es^), just like in other cases of late accent
retraction in that language (nestí > né:st(i), voljâ > vó:le, peró >
pé:ro)