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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:
> ... my theory is corroborated by the development in
> Polish. Old Polish has, for instance, the expected seNdzic' "judge" -
> saNdzisz (a. p. b), which has been transformed analogically to Modern
> Polish saNdzic' - saNdzisz. In order to explain that, Kortlandt
assumes
> some imaginary suffix *-Ij-, which has dissapeared and who knows what.
> That is the clear example that his theory just does not work and his
> critique is futile.
That is a misunderstanding. Kortlandt does not talk about the
alternation of seNdzic' vs. saNdzisz, but about the accentuation of the
noun meaning 'judge', i.e. *soNdIji, which does have the suffix *-Ij-.
As far as I know (but I may be mistaken), the alternation seNdzic' vs.
saNdzisz is not treated anywhere in his work. Indeed I vividly recall
him saying at some point in the mid seventies that he felt that that
was the only more or less serious problem in Slavic accentology his
theory failed to account for. Of course I am not in a position to tell
whether or not he would still say that today.
Best,
Willem