Re: [tied] Meillet's law

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:

>
> On Sub, sijeèanj 20, 2007 12:11 am, mcarrasquer reèe:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mandicdavid" <davidmandic@>
> > wrote:
>
> > [The above are the main pillars of my theory about three (not

two!)

> > original Balto-Slavic accent paradigms. I have just thought of the
> > following, but I don't have my books at hand here in Poland, so

this

> > is tentative:]
> >
> > acute root vowel: becomes a.p. a in closed syllable (or"d-lo,

my"d-

> > lo), remains a.p. b [acute elimination!] in open syllable (e.g.

vê-

> > dró).
>
> This doesn't really fit the material I think. There are tons of

examples

> of the acute being eliminated with the suffix -*dlo. Check out the

list in

> OSA 1990 (I think it's there).

You're probably right. I'll check the material when I get home in a
couple of days.