[tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas Olander" <olander@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> > I also don't really understand Kortlandt's argument about R.
> > détjam, détjax, ljúdjam, ljúdjax. I gather the idea is that
> > the accent was retracted in i-stem ljudImÚ, ljudIxÚ from the
> > final yer all the way to ljúdImU, ljúdIxU, skipping the
> > middle yer, but how does that invalidate the possibility of
> > ljudÍmU, ljudÍxU > ljúdImU, ljúdIxU? What am I missing?
>
> I missed that point, too. I consulted Kortlandt's "Slavic

accentuation",

> p. 15 (which he refers to in his paper in Baltu filolog'ija 2004,

p. 27),

> but it didn't really help.
> Maybe someone from Leiden could tell us?

I'm not from Leiden, but probably the lack of the neo-acute reflexes
on V in -VCImU, -VCIxU?

Sergei