On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:03:47 +0200, Sergejus Tarasovas
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S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>> From: Miguel Carrasquer [mailto:mcv@...]
>
>>Yes, but
>> since /ie/ can also come directly from *ai (e.g. vienas), I
>> don't think that's a necessary conclusion.
>
>*Can* doesn't answer the question why we have both -ì and -ai~ from supposed
>*-ái < *-oy. An exact rule would answer.
The rule as I gave it was:
-oy > -aí > -íe hard adjectives (gerì)
> -ie~ pronouns (tie~)
-yoy > -iaí > -íe soft adjectives (didelì)
-iyoy > -iai~ soft adjectives (auksìniai)
And then analogical spread of *ijo-stem -(i)ai~ to the nouns
(hard *-o- and soft *-jo-: výrai, keliai~), perhaps under
the influence of the circumflex pronominal ending.
This would put (pre-)Lithuanian in agreement with Slavic
(nom.pl. acute *-oy > -i vs. e.g. loc.sg. circumflex *-oi >
-ê). That Slavic shows no evidence of circumflex *-ai~ in
the nom. pl. is consistent with the lack of separate
reflexes for *-ijo-stems in Slavic in general.
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