Re: [tied] Re: Slavic accentology

> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:52:30 +0200, Mate Kapovic
> <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
>>And of course, it is very curious that there exist a. p. a -ja nouns
>> (like
>>*krádja), a. p. c -ja nouns (like *dus^a) and instead of "normal" a. p.
>>b -ja nouns (which would have to have fixed ending stress) we find -ja
>> nouns
>>(like *volja) with retracted accent. So there's no a. p. b -ja stems,
>
> How do you explain (from Thomas' list) brUnjá, gospodjá,
> konopjá, luc^á, lUz^já, medjá, rUdjá, svętjá, stIzjá, and
> the adjectives dobjá, medjá, porz^já, proc^já, sinjá,
> s^upljá, tUs^c^já, xors^á, c^ijá, svojá? (And, ending in
> -Ijá: IlIjá, svinIjá, zmIjá).

-Ija is a different thing. As for others, there are different
explanations. Gospodja is (c), cf. Croat. Dubrovnik gospo`dja, go``spodju,
also Croat. me`dja, me``dju (Russ. has (b)though), brUnja has also stem
accent variant, luc^a is (a) in Croat. (lu``c^a), rdja is (c) in Croat.
etc. I'm not sure about the adjectives, I have to check them, thanks for
the idea, I hadn't thought about that. Right now, I can tell you that
sinjá could be (c) (a. p. a in Russian is probably secondary), s^upljá
could also be (c), c^ijá and svojá have no cluster. I still have some
words to account for ofcourse. If you look at all the examples, you'll see
that there is a normal (a) pattern, normal (c) pattern but that in normal
(b) pattern, that is fixed stress on the ending there are not many sure
examples. At least, that is my conclusion.

Mate