[tied] Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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:

I am, actually ;-)

>
> 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).
>

Thank you.


Torsten