Re: [tied] Ablaut and accent

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:27:14 +0000, Glen Gordon
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>>There *is* a simple and elegant solution to this problem... All
>>_root_ nouns and verbs have ultimate accent (penultimate at an
>>earlier stage with final vowels).
>
>So you actually think that it is more logical to assume an
>"ultimate accent stage" when the accusative case, which we can
>both agree is an ancient suffix, VIOLATES your rule for ALL root
>nouns?!

It doesn't, not for the relevant stage I was talking about.

The strong cases (*pods, *podm, later *po:ds, *podm.) were
monosyllabic, the weak cases (*pedés, *pedéi etc., later *péds, *pédi)
were bisyllabic. All were accented on the last syllable.

Piotr, tell him how many syllables your first name has (in the
nominative).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...