Re: [tied] The sectors of ablaut.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> The reason for the "accent movement before all other endings which
> formed syllables" that plagues Jens overanalytical brain is simply

due to

> the penultimate accent rule because suffixes with syllables are
> naturally going to shift a penultimate accent over one syllable!
>
> The End.
>
> Why is Jens trying to explain the obvious again? Must be a nervous
> twitch.

We do not know that the cause of accent mobility is an
earlier "penultimate accent". Still, it is nice to see that the
descriptive fact that the accent moves a syllable towards the end of
the word if the flexive has an allomorph that forms a syllable is
accepted. That rule is very far from common knowledge in the field.
Pause.

Jens