Re: [tied] Re: Slavic *-je/o

On 2006-09-05 17:13, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> I don't by it so far, but anyway, Miguel seems to formulate the law for
> Slavic only, doesn't he? What evidence could one adduce to support it
> for Baltic (except infinitives with the acuted suffix -- this would be
> circular)?

My feeling is that it's a very old principle: acutes attract stress, and
if there's a conflict between two acutes, the first one wins. That's why
radical stress overrides suffixal stress in the -yti type if the root is
acute. The rule may have been productive in the early history of
Balto-Slavic and then (perhaps) again in Slavic.

Piotr