Re: [tied] Balto-Slavic accentology

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:03:40 +0000, elmeras2000
<jer@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> I don't know where the length in sly"s^ati comes from. Even
>> if laryngeal (which I doubt), applying Hirt's law will only
>> get us as far as slys^a"ti (but admittedly sly"s^oN in the
>> present). Your suggestion (original barytonesis, maintained
>> against Dybo's law by the [acute] length) sounds good to me.
>> I'm only worried by the circumflex on Grk. klûthi.
>
>Greek tones are non-distinctive outside of the final syllable. The
>could not be a Greek word §klú:thi.

Thanks. I had just bought Philomen Probert's booklet to
look it up.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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