From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40370
Date: 2005-09-23
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <magwich78@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 7:56 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their thematic
vowel
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> > But IE does not seem to have had regular word-initial accent.
> >
> > - Rob
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> Au contraire. The commonest root form, *CéC-, indicates a
> predominantly word-initial stress-accent.
>
> ***
Predominantly? I don't know about that. The earliest (and
overwhelming) pattern I see is regular stress on the penultimate
syllable. After reduction of many unstressed vowels (particularly
near resonants), that pattern was essentially changed into "free
stress".
- Rob
***
Patrick:
1. The commonest (canonical) PIE root-form is *CVC-.
2. This developed from a _pre-_PIE root form *CVCV.
3. Stress-accent on the penultimate produced PIE *CVC from pre-PIE *'CVCV by
deletion of the stress-unaccented final vowel.
For *CVCV, stress-accent on the penultimate and word-initial stress-accent
are the same.
***