Re: [tied] Definite adjectives: correction

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Definite adjectives: correction


> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:56:45 +0100, Mate Kapovic <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
> >>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> >> It's a circumflex in Slavic (-ê < *-oï, not -i), but then the nom.pl
which
> >> is an acute in Slavic (-i < *-oy, not -ê) is a circumflex in Lithuanian
> >> nouns and soft adjectives.
> >
> >This is an outdated theory. Slavic -e and -i < *-oy have nothing to do
with
> >intonation.
>
> What do they have to do with then?
>

It is probably just an analogy to the soft stems and hence -i (via *-ey
instead of *-oy) instead of intonation relevance. There's no reason
whatsoever to assume that there was an acute intonation in Slavic -i in N.
pl. o-stems or the imperative.

Mate