[tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...> wrote:

> Actually, in a recent festschrift for Jens, Thomas Olander (which

has taken

> part in some of the discussions here) explains -áms and -óms as

archaisms

> and -omi`s, -osu` etc. as innovations. He thinks that the stress

was

> originally on the thematic vowel and that desinential stress can be
> explained via de Saussure in Lith. and via Dybo in Slavic with

further

> analogical developments. I personally agree with his analysis.
>

Cf., however, Kortlandt's reaction in _Baltu filolog'ija_, XIII (1),
2004 (http://www.lu.lv/filol/Baltu_nodala/2004Balti_XIII_1.pdf).

Sergei