Re: [tied] Slavic accentology

> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:36:52 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
> <mcv@...> wrote:

>>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:

I don't quite get why are you looking for such a broad definition of
Stang's law since it is present only in clearly defined cases of a. p. b
present tense, a. p. b imperfect, a. p. b long adjectives and ordinal
numbers, *volja-type nouns, G. pl. of a. p. b with the acute in the middle
syllable etc. and it clearly has something to do with length (long falling
middle accent retracts)?

Mate