[tied] Re: Active / Stative

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

> I also asked about the reduction of unstressed /a/ vs. /o/
> in Latin. Is /a/ more resistent to reduction than /o/? I'm
> not confident about the soundlaws governing reduced vowels
> in Latin, but based on the reduction of fac- to fic-
> (afficio, etc.), I'd say there is no difference between /a/
> and /o/. So if *-osyo was reduced to *-ijjo/-i:o, *-asyo-
> should have done the same. Is that correct?

In closed syllables, unstressed (i.e. in non word-initial, non word-
final syllables) /a/ became /e/.

Richard.