From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39786
Date: 2005-08-26
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From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]
>
> Piotr:
> > And it should be remembered that in most of the
> > early thematic presents the thematic vowel was
> > _accented_.
>
> On what basis do you assert that the *earliest*
> thematic presents have an accented thematic vowel?
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Patrick:
The earliest thematic presents had a stress-accented vowel because, without
the stress-accent, the stress-unaccented vowel would have become *Ø.
Duh!
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> We can etymologize *-ye- as being from relative
> pronoun *yo- and *-ske- would be from aorist *-s-
> plus emphatic particle *ge. These etymologies further
> suggest the denominal (and thus stative) character of
> these suffixes. That would make for a stronger
> connection at one time with the aorist, not the
> durative. That then explains the accent.
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Patrick:
This is kindergarten linguistics.
-*ye is the adjective formant -*ye.
-*sk^e is a compound of singulative -*s + -*k^(h), which indicates a
repetition of point-actions.
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