Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

> > The effect of such a law would be to prepare the ground for
> > Pedersen's law, as it makes almost all (non-neuter) athematic nouns
> > have an end-stressed nominative singular (h2akmó:n as well as
> > dHugHté:r) and a non-end-stressed accusative singular (h2ákmonim and
> > dHugHtérim [later polarized to dHúgHterim]).
>
> Of course, *Hak'mó:n instead of *Hák'mo:n could be simply due to
> *Hák'monim being interpreted as new *dúkterim, thus *Hak'mó:n like
> *dukté:r. But it fits nicely for L. sg. I admit.
>
> > So, instead of the different kinds of mobile paradigms of PIE
> > (protero-, amphi-, hystero-kinetic/dynamic), this law moves Balto-
> > Slavic in the direction of a single kinetic/dynamic (mobile)
> > paradigm, which is what subsequently, by Pedersen's law, was
> > transferred to the vowel stems.

wrt Pedersen's law
It would make sense also with a lot of speakers of initial-stressed
languages such as Finno-Ugric learning Slavic, making acrostatics out
of everything in the process, that there would be an opposite
hypercorrecting tendency towards making everything mobile.
Mobilization run amok, as Jens says.

wrt Miguel's idea
Isn't there a tendency in eg. Finnish towards moving stress from
initial to a long vowel?


Torsten