From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 35406
Date: 2004-12-09
>In Copenhagen, some of us believe in a sound law we call "Slaaby-Larsen's Law" (namedHow does the theory deal with mobile words such as [from
>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 *vòlja-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.
>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 *dUnò;
>Pre-Sl. mobile *gnayzda > CS *gne^zdò;
>Pre-Sl. mobile *seydla > CS *sidlò;
>Pre-Sl. mobile *kirsnu *kirsna: *kirsna > CS *c^I´rnU *c^Irnà *c^Irnò;
>Pre-Sl. mobile *agni > CS *ògnI;
>Pre-Sl. mobile *mizda: > CS *mIzdà;
>(? Pre-Sl. mobile *p(t)etra > CS *però;)
>etc.