On Pon, siječanj 15, 2007 7:58 pm, mandicdavid reče:
> Does anyone know of an explanation for the lack of an acute mobile
> accentual paradigm in Slavic other than the acute-to-circumflex
> metatony and Kortlandt's theory involving a gradual loss of the reflex
> of the PIE laringeals?
Kortlandt's theory should be more acceptable in traditional terms: the
acute is eliminated in pretonic (and posttonic syllables), thus also in a.
p. c. Enclinomena-forms have the accent by analogy to forms with pretonic
accent.
Jens of course preferes to think of Meillet's law as a tendency to
polarize the accent in Slavic by which *sy´´nU becomes *sy^nU because
*sy'ynU > *s'yynU. In this way, the accent is on the absolute first mora
and Meillet's law can be related to Vasiljev-Dolobko's law and the rise of
enclinomena-forms.