[tied] Re: Slavic endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-09-15 10:31, tgpedersen wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >> On 2006-09-14 19:01, tgpedersen wrote:
> >>
> >>> Where would you place the accent shift?
> >> After VL, obviously. It doesn't seem possible to place it

precisely in

> >> relation to the later changes.
>
> Sorry. I forgot what I'd said myself: Prokosch's Law and Kluge's Law
> don't operate word-initially and after an accented nucleus, so the
> Germanic stress shift must be even more recent.

Initial stress seems to be an areal feature (Finnish, Estonian,
Latvian, Germanic, Pre-Latin, Celtic, Old Polish, Czech,
Hungarian), so that might be relevant to the wanderings of
early Germani.


Torsten