Re: [tied] PIE Word Formation (1) -- a couple of small self-correct

On 2006-03-29 08:48, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> The addition of a suffix may result in changing the vocalism of the
> immediate derivational base. In particular, a suffix with a full
> vowel usually "steals" the accent from the stem,

... from the base ...

> causing the latter to lose its vowel. Thus from the root *pleh1-
> 'fill' we get the verbal adjective *pl.h1-nó- 'full'. Similar shifts
> may be caused by accented inflectional endings. As a consequence,
> only one underlying vowel per stem

... per word ...

> is realised in the surface form. This happens especially in the most
> archaic layers of PIE derivatives; in those formed at a later date,
> when ablaut rules were no longer active phonetic processes, the base
> normally retains its vocalism and the alternation of strong and weak
> forms is restricted to the last suffix of the base (or doesn't occur
> at all).

Piotr