Re: [tied] Ablaut and accent

Outside of the main debate: Armenian has final stress, but still accepts
words like tasn, eLungn, ezr, astL. Surely such a language should not be
alarming to Indo-Europeanists. It does not follow from that, however, that
the possibility was utilized exactly in the case under discussion.

Jens

>
>
> I said:
>>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?!
>
> Miguel contradicts logic:
>>It doesn't, not for the relevant stage I was talking about.
>>
>>The strong cases (*pods, *podm, later *po:ds, *podm.) were
>>monosyllabic,
>
> And how many languages operate such that *podm may be monosyllabic??
> Certainly only handfuls. Is this a likely rule even if it is
> possible? No. You know it's not likely. It's something you dreams
> out of your hat again.
>
> Regardless of what you babble, my theory is better under Occam's
> Razor than what you can possibly dream in your crazy imaginative
> head of yours because I'm not pleading with bizarre sound rules.
> Piotr, tell him why your name has no bearing on his crazy rule.
>
>
> - gLeN
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