Re: [tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their themati

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:44:01 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>Rob wrote:
>
>> I still see no reason to posit any underlyingly long root vowels. If
>> there were, we would expect to see an é:/o alternation, given the
>> apparent features of IE pitch accent and qualitative Ablaut.
>
>Could you be more specific? The main effect of the presence of a Narten
>vowel is the alternation of *e: and *e (the latter in originally
>unstressed positions). In those positions where we would expect *e:
>itself to be lengthened (i.e. superlong), we find *o: (or *o as a
>conditioned shortened reflex thereof).

In verbs?


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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