On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:22:09 +0000, Glen Gordon
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glengordon01@...> wrote:
>When you finally accept an intermediary "penultimate accent"
>stage for Old/Mid IE (proven by alternations like *?es-t-i versus
>*?s-ent-i)
The *-i, as a later addition, does not count for the accent (there is
no difference in accentuation between verbal forms with primary or
secondary endings), so *h1és-t(i) ~ *h1s-ént(i) actually proves
_ultimate_ accent in these forms, as expected in a root verb.
There were several accentual types in PIE, the basic ones being
ultimate accent (root type: rect. /, obl. =/ e.g. *h1és-t, *h1s-ént
hysterodynamic type: rect. =/, obl. ==/, e.g. *p&2té:r, *p&2trés), and
penultimate accent (proterodynamic type: rect. /=, obl. =/=, e.g.
*h2ák^mo:n, *&2k^ménos).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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