Re: [tied] More Slavic accentology

>
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:13:01 +0000, Thomas Olander
> <olander@...> wrote [slightly rearranged]:
>
>>In Copenhagen, some of us believe in a sound law we call "Slaaby-Larsen's
>> Law" (named
>>after Martin Slaaby-Larsen, who pointed it out to us). The sound law
>> resembles "van Wijk's
>>Law" (see e.g. Collinge, The Laws of I-E, p. 197-198). Central to van
>> Wijk, however, were
>>clusters containing *j (the so-called *vňlja-type), which I think is
>> another - and much
>>more complicated - story. Accordingly, in order to avoid confusion, I
>> call the law
>>presented here Slaaby-Larsen's law.
>
> Unfortunately, I had never heard of it.

Well, you couldn't have, since it was not published.

>>A tentative and, to some extent, theory-neutral formulation of the law
>> is:
>>
>>In Pre-Slavic, words with mobile accentuation containing a medial cluster
>> C1C2 (where C1
>>= obstruent, C2 = any consonant, probably except j and w) get fixed
>> root-stress (yielding
>>CS a.p. a or - via Dybo's law - a.p. b).
>>
>>This explains:
>>
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *dubna > CS *dUnň;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *gnayzda > CS *gne^zdň;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *seydla > CS *sidlň;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *kirsnu *kirsna: *kirsna > CS *c^I´rnU *c^Irnŕ *c^Irnň;
>>(? Pre-Sl. mobile *p(t)etra > CS *perň;)
>>etc.

>>Pre-Sl. mobile *agni > CS *ňgnI;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *mizda: > CS *mIzdŕ;
>
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *neslu *nesla: *nesla > CS *nčslU *neslŕ *neslň;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *peklu *pekla: *pekla > CS *pčklU *peklŕ *peklň;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *kla:dlu *kla:dla: *kla:dla > CS *kla"dlU *kla"dla
>> *kla"dlo;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *pa:dlu *pa:dla: *pa:dla > CS *pa"dlU *pa"dla *pa"dlo;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *se:dlu *se:dla: *se:dla > CS *se^"dlU *se^"dla *se^"dlo;
>>Pre-Sl. mobile *e:dlu *e:dla: *e:dla > CS *e^"dlU *e^"dla *e^"dlo;
>>etc.
>>(Cf. Pre-Sl. mobile *derlu *derla: *derla > CS *dęrlU *derlŕ *dęrlo with
>> C1 not = obstr.)
>>Pre-Sl. end-stressed *kla:dte:y > CS *kla"sti;
>>Pre-Sl. end-stressed *pa:dte:y > CS *pa"sti;
>>etc.
>>(Cf. Pre-Sl. end-stressed *ge:rte:y > CS *z^ertě with C1 not = obstr.)
>>

I like Slaaby-Larsen's Law. Especially for the verbs. I have always
wondered why do present's like *pečet'e or *neset'e have *pekl'o and
*nesl'o but I have never given it much thought. This seems like a good
explanation.
Also, *derl7 and the other one could be different not only because *r is
not an obstruent but also because the *er sequence is kind of a diphthong
maybe...
My only problem with this theory in verbs is that it does not explain the
so-called "mixed type" in verbs (infinitive/l-participle a. p. a, present
a. p. c): it works with *kla´´sti, *kla^doN, *kla´´dl7, but not with for
instance *gri´´zti, *gri^zoN, *gri´´zl7. This could of course be explained
in a different way...

Mate