Re: Meillet's law

From: mcarrasquer
Message: 47025
Date: 2007-01-20

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> BTW Czech which has initial stress, stresses the preposition in
> prepositional phrases. Does that phenomenon belong here?

Not anymore: in Czech (and e.g. Polish) the phenomenon is automatic,
independent of the following noun. The original Common Slavic rule
required the following noun to be of the mobile type.