[tied] Re: Slavic accentual mobility

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:

> I don't see how can 2/3sg aorist have such an influence on the

whole system,

> but OK.

It probably did not, for at the time of the influence the system was
no doubt bigger. Later, the 2/3sg is all that remains of the root
aorist, because the rest has been replaced by the forms of the
sigmatic aorist.

> So do you think that all i-verbs originally had a. p. a stress on

the -i-

> or what? Like *dogovori´´l7?

I don't follow. You posited *do``govorilU yourself. Is that wrong
now?

Jens