Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

David:

>It's the lingering effect, exceptions to sandhi, etc., of a
>laryngeal in an earlier stage. For example, in Ossetic
>stress is generally predictable, falling on the second
>syllable of a phrase if the first is short, or on the
>second syllable otherwise. In Old Ossetic, and still
>in Digor, there was a definite article "i", which has
>dissappeared in the Iron dialect, but which has a
>lingering effect on stress placement,[...]

Man. And yet when I say Mid IE lost a single final vowel
in certain places and that it has a lingering effect on the
unpredictable stress placement of Common IE, I get
nailed to a tree!

Thanks for the interesting details, David.


- gLeN

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