Re: More Slavic accentology

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

> As far as the oxytone neuters are concerned, I truly think
> my solution is simpler (nothing changed from PIE to Slavic),
> and explains much more (e.g. why most oxytone neuters are
> AP(b) and why there are hardly any AP(c) neuters). Note
> that besides the suffixes -nó-, -ló-, -ró-, etc., neuters
> ending in -inó-, -imó-, -ikó-, -ijó- etc. are also AP(b):
> bIrvInó, govInó, gumInó, kopIjé, pisImó, sIrdIcé, etc., so
> the phenomenon is by no means restricted to formations
> containing -CC-.

I may well be missing some points, but how do we know that we should
reconstruct -inó-, -imó-, -ikó, -ijó- etc. in these words? In
Lith., -ìmas and -ìkas belong to AP 2, and thus point to older
immobile *-íma-, *-íka- (> Slav. -Imó, -Icé).

Anders