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

So we agree that "lingering effects" can be very tenacious. After all the
accent movements of the IE inflectional paradigms are still reflected in
Slavic and Lithuanian; the ablaut is still there in the German verbs and
in Greek verbs, whatever its ultimate cause; the three genders that have
lost all meaning are still there in many languages; and so on and so
forth. Facts like these have been good to think about when sceptics have
been "methodologically" opposed to any talk of combining IE with the
outside world.

Jens

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Glen Gordon wrote:

>
> 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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