Re: [tied] Ablaut and accent

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:19:50 +0200 (CEST), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

>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.

No, but it follows from the fact that the accusative singular is a
strong case. If the deseinence had been syllabic, it would have
attracted the accent. It didn't, so *-m was not syllabic.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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