[tied] Re: IE lexical accent

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> > There are plural markers in the dat.pl., ins.pl., and loc.pl.

also.

> > There are also dual markers contained in the corresponding

endings of

> > the dual.
>
> Of course they are, which I mentioned were created _later_. I don't
> understand why you think this is a fair arguement to list a whole

bunch

> of examples that appear to contradict what I'm saying without any

deeper

> analysis of the _structure_ that you're talking about. You're

merely

> quoting them ignorantly in isolation from each other. May I remind

you

> that you're discussing the origins of an entire system, in this

case

> the declensional paradigm, not individual morphemes.

The nature of phonetic "rules" should be to operate regardless of
the underlying morphological structure. Therefore their real test is
how they fare with unanalyzable morphemes. Not too well in this case
it will seem.

Jens