Re: [tied] Re: Balto-Slavic C-stems / long vowel endings

On Ned, siječanj 28, 2007 4:00 pm, mandicdavid reče:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> But levelling to what? Mobile feminines ending in a full
>> vowel keep final stress in the N. sg. (nogá, lod(Ij)í,
>> svekrý). Only the feminine i-stems lose final stress (c.q.
>> merge with the accusative). Unless the levelling was somehow
>> with ma"ti, the only other r-stem in the language.
>>
>
>
> Maybe to the feminine i-stems. They had initial stress in all sg. forms
> except L and I. Even the endings of the i-stems replaced original r-
> stem endings in lots of forms - that must have influenced the a.p. of
> the word dUtji (today, the word kći is an i-stem in Croatian).

Anyway, it makes no sense discussing the question "levelling to what"? The
fact is that we have initial accent there. The easiest solution, if you
consider Lith. dukte.~ as archaic, is to attribute initial accent to
analogy with enclinomena forms. The fact the there was no analogy of the
sort in a:-, i:- and y-stems is irrelevant. Analogy can hardly be
considered regular.