[tied] Re: Decircumflexion, N-raising, H-raising: Slavic soundrules

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> The classical Indo-European and Balto-Slavic sonorants are
> /irlmn/ (or /ywrlmn/, whichever you prefer). Combinations
> of vowel + rlmn still behave like vowel + iu in Lithuanian
> for purposes of accentuation, don't they?

Yes, they are completely isomorphic as to prosody.

> As to the lengthening by final sonorant + -s, it seems
> natural enough (cf. Szemerényi lengthening in PIE, which
> applies to -Cs in general, but where -s is deleted only
> after sonorants). I can't think of any other examples right
> now, but if you look at the i- and u-stems, the fact that
> acc.pl. *-ns (*-ms) lengthens is undeniable.

Yes, that strengthens the rule.

> >Kortlandt actually offers the same solution (which I reported in

one

> >of my recent postings).
>
> I must have missed that. Shame, it would have saved me a
> day of of senselessly shifting around soundlaws.

In case you'll want to look up yourself, it's in
http://www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art066e.pdf
(5.9, 6.1, 7.8, 7.9, 7.14, 9.7).

Sergei