From: tgpedersen
Message: 46306
Date: 2006-10-09
>But they want to go away and will, if you don't remove the preceding
> 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*e-o- is my story, and I'll stick to it.
> > 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-.Oops. Aren't you looking forward to being my age?
> > 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
>