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

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:14:00 +0100 (CET), Mate Kapović
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>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.

We have it in Croatian, perhaps in all of South Slavic. I'm
not competent enough in Slovenian to know what the source of
hc^i^, hc^E^re might be. Hock's "Flexionsakzent im
mittelbulgarischen Evangelie 1139 (NBKM)" states that MBulg.
dU's^ti has joined a.p. a "eventuell unter dem Einfluss von
mati". I don't think OCz. dci, dcer^e or Svk. dcéra, Pol.
cora throw much light on the accentuation in Common Slavic
or Old Russian either, but I may be wrong. Vasmer's
etymological dictionary of Russian does however mention a
"s.-v.-r" (NW Russian?) form dóc^í (presumably dóc^i or
doc^í). It also dates the loss of -i in this word to the
15/16th century.


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