Re: [tied] trzymac'

On Ned, svibanj 28, 2006 6:26 pm, Miguel Carrasquer reče:

> On Sun, 28 May 2006 16:08:05 +0000, Sergejus Tarasovas
> <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>
>>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
>>wrote:
>>...
>>
>>I forgot to add that East Slavic, which escaped the contraction, indeed
>>doesn't allow us to distinguish between (b) and (c) types of *a/aje
>>verbs (Russ. <pytájes^'>, Ukr. <pytájes^>, Russ. <kopájes^'>, Ukr.
>><kopájes^> vs. Russ. <délajes^'>, Ukr. <pádajes^> 'fall').
>
> I was just about to point that out.
>
> This means that the retraction (and the contraction) cannot
> be Common Slavic, and cannot be due to Stang's law proper.

Why not? It just means that the contraction was dialectal and not
pan-Slavic and that it has apparently occurred first after the long roots.

Mate