Re: [tied] Alternating foot

On 2006-10-08 01:45, tgpedersen wrote:

> Let me rephrase then: Root vowels don't go away ever, except in
> environments notorious for making things go away?

Yes. Crucially, they don't go away (except in well-defined extraordinary
circumstances) in nouns with o-vocalism in the strong cases. They do go
away in the other type of root noun -- proterokinetic, with e-grade in
the strong cases and zero grade in the weak cases, like
*pré:k^-s/*prék^-m./*pr.k^-ós.

> In root nouns the stress has nowhere to go. No wonder it causes
> trouble.

Why not? It can go to the ending, even in biconsonantal root nouns. The
fact that the root becomes asyllabic when the accent is shifted is no
problem in PIE, cf. root verbs like *h1és-ti/*h1s-énti (pres.) or
*kWer-t/*kWr-ént (aor. inj.).

> Note BTW that amphikinetic stems have *CéCoCC-, *CCCéC-.
> Now if we see an acrostatic root in its totality with a preceding
> noun, we might get the same: *CéC-CoCC-, *CC-CCéC-. There were
> many more ti-ri-po-de(-jo) in Linear B than actual feet.

We've discussed this before:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/44421

Piotr