On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:36:52 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
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mcv@...> wrote:
[Some further notes]
>Stang's law: the accent is retracted from a stressed medial
>syllable.
>
>The law works _before_ Dybo's law and the "jabloko" law, at
>a time when there were still three accent classes: I
>(root-stressed), II (theme-stressed) and III (mobile). I
>cannot tell whether it was before or after Meillet's law.
>The law affects only words in accent class II, in other
>words:
>
>(1) neuter o-stems of accent class II (the "peró-group")
>
>(2) jé-, né- and í:-verbs (iteratives) of accent class II.
>
>There were no other forms with medial accent at the time.
A bit of an exaggeration. There were also suffixed words
with dominant (stressed) suffix, where the accent had been
retracted earlier by Hirt's law, e.g. bogátU. There are two
ways to deal with these:
1) reformulate Stang's law as: accent is retracted from a
non-acute stressed medial syllable (in which case Stang's
and Dybo's law do not affect boga//tU)
2) Leave it as above, in which case the developments are
more complicated, although the result is the same:
For the stress pattern -/-, we can have the following
intonations in the first two syllables:
1 acute - non-acute
2 acute - acute
3 non-acute - non-acute
4 non-acute - acute
In the simple formulation of Stang's law, the developments
are:
-/- (Stang)> /--
-/- (Stang)> /--
-/- (Stang)> /-- (Dybo)> -/-
-/- (Stang)> /-- (Dybo)> -/-
If Stang's law does not apply to acute medial syllables, we
have:
-/- (Stang)> /--
-/- (Stang)> -/- (Jabloko)> /--
-/- (Stang)> /-- (Dybo)> -/-
-/- (Stang)> -/-
>Verbs:
>
>1 steljóN steljóN
>2 steljés^I stéljes^I
>3 steljétI stéljetI
>1 steljémU stéljemU
>2 steljéte stéljete
>3 steljóNtI stéljoNtI
>1 steljévê stéljevê
>2 steljéta stéljeta
>3 steljéte stéljete
>
>After Stang's law, it's the a.p. c verbs which are
>analogically transformed to become the mirror image of the
>neo-mobile class II paradigm:
>
>1 béroN
>2 béres^I > beres^Í
>3 béretI > beretÍ
>1 beremU'
>2 bereté
>3 beroNtÍ
>1 berevê'
>2 beretá
>3 bereté
Verbs that became a.p. b only after Dybo's law should have
constituted a new theme-stressed pattern, but this did not
happen, except perhaps for denominative/causative i-verbs,
if Dybo is right in reconstructing a theme-stressed paradigm
(loz^jóN, loz^ítI vs. iterative nosjóN, nòsitI) for these
verbs. Most barytone verbs affected by a forward shift in
ictus by Dybo's law ended up in a.p. c [bo\\doN, bodètI] or
in its "a.p. b" mirror image [borjóN, bòrjetI; mogóN,
mòz^etI].
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...