Re: [tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

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From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <s.tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:55 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Various loose thoughts


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


> If I understand Olander's proposal, the expected forms would
> be:
>
> D *-amùs -ómus *-imùs *-umùs
> (Saussure's law, except in the a:-stems)
> L *-ie~su(?) *-ósu *-ìsu *-ùsu
> (no Saussure's law)
> I *-ómis -imìs -umìs
> (Saussure's law as above).
>
> Is that correct?

>I hope we'll hear from Thomas himself.

You haven't quite got it I think. The accent is supposed to be on the
thematic vowel (like *-'amus, *-ómus, *-'umus etc.) except when it is
shifted to the next syllable by de Saussure's Law (thus *-umi`s, *-imi`s) or
analogically shifted (like *-omi`s by analogy to *-umi`s etc.).

Mate