[tied] Re: Russian v(o), s(o) & k(o) (was: IE Thematic Vowel Rule)

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

> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:40:43 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >Thank you for the clear explanation. I suppose this means

that 'mne'

> >and 'mnoy' once contained a jer (between m and n),

whereas 'toboy'

> >and 'tebye' had a full vowel. The next question is how that jer
> >arose; "me" has full vowel also in the paradigm: 'menya'. Was

there

> >an alternation in the Proto-Slavic paradigm of "me" between jer

and

> >full vowel?
>
> Yes.
>
> acc/gen. mene
> dat/loc. mInê
> ins. mUnojoN
>
> as opposed to:
>
> acc/gen. tebe, sebe
> dat/loc. tebê, sebê
> ins. tobojoN, sobojoN
>
>

And even this is not the starting point of the causation chain.
Is the alternation between stressed full vowel and unstressed jers
in the "me" word, unlike the alternation between stressed full vowel
and unstressed full vowel in the "thee" and "himself" words, caused
by the position of the vowel before a nasal, or how?


Torsten