Jens:
>The rule, first established by others on a purely descriptive
>basis, is the natural consequence of the rule of initial accent
>I claim to have found for a prestage of the protolanguage.
When you finally accept an intermediary "penultimate accent"
stage for Old/Mid IE (proven by alternations like *?es-t-i versus
*?s-ent-i), this whole ablaut thing will be so much clearer. In
my theory, the initial accent stage is all the way back in
Indo-Tyrrhenian, so I can see why you're so confused about ablaut.
You're missing a couple thousand years of accent development.
- gLeN
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