Re: Decircumflexion, N-raising, H-raising: Slavic soundrules on-line

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

> It's in itself reasonable to think that -aí was changed to
> -ai~ due to contraction (-ijaí > -jai~), as was the fem.
> nom. sg. -ijá: > -e:~.

I wonder how one would explain collectives in -ijà (vilkijà vs.
vìlke:, perkú:nija) then?

> After all, contractions are one of
> the major sources of circumflex accentuation.

But for adjectives you posited that contraction leads to circumflex
under stress only. Why gerì vs. z^e~me: then? Analogy?

> The problem
> is explaining why that didn't happen in the ins.sg. and
> acc.pl. (of both genders).

And in the historical L.sg. (Old Lith. -è, later replaced with -yjè).

Sergei