On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:25:16 +0000, Alexei Kassian
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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.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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