Re: [tied] > Slaaby-Larsen's law

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 44961
Date: 2006-06-13

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:25:16 +0000, Alexei Kassian
<kassian@...> wrote:

>alas, I failed to understand the so called Slaaby-Larsen's law (as it
>is worded at your link). (Certainly it speaks nothing about so called
>Slaaby-Larsen's law.)

Think of it this way: we need this law to explain at least
three related phenomena:
1) the accentuation of the present tense of byti.
2) the accentuation of short-vowelled l-participles of
C-verbs
3) the accentiation of long-vowelled (Balto-Slavic acute)
l-participles of C-verbs

In (1) and (2), we wouldn't expect Dybo's law to work in a
mobile paradigm, in (3) we wouldn't expect the acute to
survive in a mobile paradigm.

We have:

PIE
*h1és-mi, *h1és-si, *h1és-ti, *h1s-més, *h1s-tés, *h1s-énti,

which, without Slaaby-Larsen's law, would have given Slavic:

*je``smI
*je``si (?)
*je``stI
je`smU (*jesmó, etc.)
jesté
sóNtI

But because Meillet's law was blocked, we have instead:

*jesmÍ > je`smI
jesí
*jestÍ > je`stI
jesmÚ (jesmó, etc.)
jesté
sóNtI

Likewise, we have:

ne`slU, nesló, neslá

and

kla"dlU, kla"dlo, kla"dla

instead of expected mobile:

ne``slU, ne``slo, neslá

and

kla^dlU, kla^dlo, kladlá

Everything looks as if mobile verbal forms with a closed
root syllable behave not as mobile forms but as immobiles
(a.p. a or b). This means that something must have blocked
Meillet's law, and that something can only be the satructure
of the forms themselves, i.e. the closed root syllable.

>My main question is:
>
>> I have found a way to fit Slaaby-Larsen's law into my model
>> of Slavic accentuation, at least as far as verbs are concerned
>
>what do you mean by "verb"?!
>
>Some concrete type of conjugation? Or some concrete dialects (which
>precisely)? Or "verb" in general?

(Balto-)Slavic verbs in general.

=======================
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...