[tied] Re: No Slavic Accentology, Please!

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Willem Vermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
wrote:

> On 27 Jul 2005 at 15:36, elmeras2000 wrote:
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> [On the valencies of the Moscow School]
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> > I find it amazing how frequently the valencies are predictable.

All acute vowels are heavy, [...].

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> That looks to me like a misunderstanding. Acute vs. non-acute

and "H" vs. "L" are independent,

> as shown by the Lithuanian paradigm (3), where the stem is acute

but low. There are four

> possibilities: (1) Acute+H; (2) Non-acute+H; (3) Acute+L; (4) Non-

acute+L.

Yes, of course, I know. That was nonsense. It rather looks like the
old accents: An accented syllable is high, others low. So low acutes
will typically be pretonic long vowels in vrddhi formations.

Thank you for your very rich post. I'll come back to some of the
other points it contains at a later time.

Jens