Re: [tied] Re: Various loose thoughts

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 03:56:43 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer
<mcv@...> wrote:

>Now in the 3pl. of mobile verbs, I can certainly see how
>this novel idea of applying Dybo's law to mobile paradigms
>may open a promising pathway. The accentuation -oNtÍ makes
>no sense from a PIE point of view. Thematic 3pl. *bhéronti
>would have given *bherónti (after athematic *h1sénti), but
>never *bherontí. A shift *berónti > *berontí caused by
>Dybo's law makes perfect sense (and the same might then also
>be acceptable, in principle, in the nominal paradigms).
>
>With 2/3sg. beres^í, beretÍ (and athematic 1sg. esmÍ, but
>*not* thematic béroN), things are more complicated. One
>would like to know where this bizarre accentuation came
>from, but applying Dybo's law doesn't help and is not an
>option.

It *helps* in athematic mobile forms (ésmi > esmí, és(s)(e)i

> ess(e)í, ésti > estí), but if those were accentless esmi,

esei, esti, it's not an option.

It helps *and* is an option in non-acute barytones, such as
bódmi, bódsei, bódsti > bodmí, bodseí, bodstí, which may
then have become thematized as (bodoN), bod-e-s^í, bod-e-tí.
This can then drag along nesoN, neses^i, neseti => nesoN,
neses^í, nesetí (also because of nesoNtí, if that was
regular), and then the endings -es^i, -eti in all mobile
paradigms in general.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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