Re: [tied] Meillet's law

From: mcarrasquer
Message: 47031
Date: 2007-01-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mcarrasquer" <miguelc@...> wrote:
>
> I have stated before that Meillet's law
> was blocked by Slaaby-Larsen's law, i.e. by the presence of a closed
> syllable. This explains the accentuation of the present tense of "to
> be", and the l-participle of C-verbs, which were both affected by
> Dybo's law, despite the fact that we would have expected these
> paradigms to be mobile and immune to Dybo's law by
> their "enclinomenicity". However, as evidenced by the other athematic
> verbs (with an acute stem): êd-, dad-, vêd- (2sg. êsí, dasí, vêsí),
> Slaaby-Larsen's law did not block the acute-eliminating aspect of
> Meillet's law, merely the enclinomena-producing aspect of it.

I overlooked the l-ptc., which has ê"dla (dalá and vê"dêla are from
different stems).