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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> LIV would have it as *wér-wort-ti, *wér-wr.t-n.ti. Why do
> you reconstruct the singular with accent on the actual root?
But why would it have constant accent on the reduplication and still
ablaut in the root syllable? We have reduplication combined with
radical ablaut in the present where it just *is* possible to sort
out the alternants and show that there is accent on the
reduplication when the root is reduced, and on the root when it is
unreduced, just as one would have guessed. I can't see why it would
be any different in the intensive although the evidence is more
limited. The two sets act in a very parallel way throughout their
inflection.
I'll come back to the rest.
Jens