Romanian Stress (was: PIE *kwokt)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

> Richard, if you want to read something about the stress in

Romanian you

> can try the work of Vivan Franzen from the University of Lund.

Here the

> link:
> http://www.ling.lu.se/disseminations/pdf/46/Franzen_Horne.pdf

An interesting paper. It presents, despite the authors' Dacophilia,
a clear picture of Romanian having frozen (i.e. lexicalised) Latin
stress. Even the words they identify as Dacian conform to the
pattern! That did surprise me.

Richard.