[tied] Re: IE lexical accent

> There's plenty of precendent for inflected forms having more

complex

> syllable structures. I've heard that final /stf/ in Russian only
> occurs in the genitive plural of nouns ending in <stvo> (I'm not
> sure of the stress.)
>

Danish has an odd subtractive rule (which reminds one of the Russian
one for forming gen.pl. of f. and n. nouns): to get the imperative,
subtract -e from the infinitive (if it has one). This results in
such forms as
'forvandl!' "change!"
'forandr!' "change!"
'ændr!' "change!",
'handl!' "act!"
'forbedr! "improve!"
'myldr!' "teem!"

They are correct, but mostly avoided by paraphrase. If they are
used, then tongue in cheek.

Torsten