From: tgpedersen
Message: 47027
Date: 2007-01-21
>Doesn't it also give you *mogóN, *móz^esI free of charge, so to speak
> My point is that, even before Pedersen's law (i.e. the transfer of
> mobility to the V-stems) and Hirt's law (which I had hitherto
> considered to be the oldest Balto-Slavic soundlaws), there was
> another soundlaw which shifted the accent forward to a long vowel in
> the ending. Sort of like a primordial de Saussure's law, except that
> it doesn't work on lengths produced by laryngeals. 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]).
> So, instead of the different kinds of mobile paradigms of PIEDoes this go back to 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.