Re: [tied] The Penultimate Accent Rule

On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 02:35:39, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>*nepo:t
>-------
>This is one of the few, ancient, nonderivational word forms
>in your list (< Mid IE *nepat:e), originally an IndoTyrrhenian
>compound term meaning "father's child" (cf. Tyrrhenian *nefotta).
>
> nom./loc./dat./voc. *nepát:e > *nepo:t (*nepot-s)
> accusative *nepát:e-m > *nepotm
> genitive *nepet:á-se > *neptos
>
>Everything is regular aside from the fact that the accusative
>and weak cases have sided with the nominative in *-t, instead
>of adopting a strange *-t/*-d- alternation in the paradigm.
>Regardless of the abnormal phonetic developments, this paradigm
>shows perfectly the archaic penultimate accent.

It does no such thing, because it's *népo:ts, not, as you seem to
think, *nepó:ts.

Anyway, this discussion is pointless. The rule is clearly: if the
evidence doesn't agree with the penultimate accent rule, then throw
out the evidence.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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