Re: [tied] Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:50:40 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>>It may put things into perspective to remember that the
>> thematic vowel rule is still directly observable in Modern Greek
>and
>> in part also in some Slavic languages,
>
>On the subject, Russian has, in what looks to me like athematic
>verbs either
>
>berú
>berës^
>berët
>(-ë- = -yó-)

The Common Slavic accent pattern (still partially preserved
in Old Russian) was here:

béroN
berés^I
berétI
berémU
bereté
beróNtI

>or
>
>mogú
>móz^es^
>móz^et
>
>I got a couple of pages into an article by you on Balto-Slavic
>Stress. I gathered this much:
>
>PIE mobile stress stays.
>PIE end-stress becomes mobile.

If you're talking about the verb:

PIE mobile stress (always athematic) stays.
PIE initial stress stays, if athematic, but becomes mobile
if thematic.
PIE theme-stress (always thematic) stays.

The patterns were subsequently affected by Stang's law
(theme-stressed verbs) and Dybo's law (root-stressed verbs).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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