Re: [tied] trzymac'

On Mon, 29 May 2006 13:34:13 +0200 (CEST), Mate Kapović
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>No contraction in 3rd person is exactly what we have in Croatian:
>
>pi^ta:m, pi^ta:s^, pi^ta:, pi^ta:mo, pi^ta:te, pítaju:
>
>(notice the rising accent and short -a- in the 3rd person plural). In Old
>Croatian, I guess there was also pitaju (the accent would be *pítaju),
>although I'm not sure it's attested, but it was soon levelled to -a:m by
>the analogy to -a:s^ etc.

I'm not sure I understand this completely. The ^ is the
neo-acute, I'm pretty sure, but the í in the 3pl.: is that
the neo-neo-acute (neo-S^tokavian retraction)? Does that
imply that the original form of the 3pl. was pitáju:, with
short initial vowel, stressed second (but what kind of
stress? acute? neo-circumflex?) and long unstressed third?
Was the initial vowel analogically lengthened in the 3pl?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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