Re: [tied] Animate Dual in -h3 (was: IE Roots)

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 25354
Date: 2003-08-26

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:09:55 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Miguel:
>>>During early Late IE, the feminine was unaccented *-&x
>>>and the dual was accented *-ax > *-a:.
>>
>>I can't imagine what that is based on. Nothing, I suppose.
>
>Well if you don't pay attention... Here's the explanation
>in two parts.

[snip]

Nothing you say is relevant to my objection: what difference in stress is
there between the a:-stem Nsg. and the o-stem NAdu. I don't see it.

Take a Sanskrit paradigm like:

m. f n
sg. priyás priyá: priyám
pl. priyá:s priyá:s priyá:(n.i)
du. priyá:(u) priyá:(u) priyé:

Columnar stress. These are thematic forms.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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