> BSlav & IE accentology

Dear Sergei

>> [...] Wermeer's Appendix [...]

> That is?

I merely mean that it is difficult to answer to the Wermeer's criticism
for different reasons.

> This looks like a misunderstanding. Meillet's Law (barytone forms of
> Slavic mobilia lose their acute to an automatic ("Slavic")
> circumflex) is certainly accepted by Dybo and is mentioned in his
> publications (at least up to MPAS I of 2000) under that specific
> label ("pravilo Meje" or the like). Do you mean Dybo rejects the law?
> If so, what does he offer instead? Or do you mean the name "Meillet's
> Law" is inappropriate?

Sorry, I spoke enigmatically. I mean that e.g. Meillet's Law is true,
but it is only a part of the whole system of BSlav accentuation, i.e.
Meillet made a particular observation.
Labels like "Meillet's Law" is archaisms now.

> The well-known problems with the Moscow School are
> rather the great volume of their publications, the fact that slightly
> and tacitly modified versions of the same texts are often repeated
> over and over again, and -- last not least -- that they usually
> (read: always) don't get involved in scholarly discussion and don't
> react to criticism in the literature.

Yes, it isn't good. The discussed Dybo's review of Lehfeldt volume is
probably a positive shift.