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

From: Mate Kapović
Message: 47177
Date: 2007-01-29

On Pon, siječanj 29, 2007 11:20 pm, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal reče:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:51:24 +0100 (CET), Mate Kapović
> <mkapovic@...> wrote:
>
>>On Pon, siječanj 29, 2007 12:33 am, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal reče:
>>> 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^,
>>
>>Same as Croatian.
>>
>>> hc^E^re might be.
>>
>>Accent by analogy to do hče^re etc. instead of the expected *hčere.^.
>>
>>> 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,
>>
>>Jer-dropping caused lengthening...
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but I was wondering about that. When
> Ivs^ic''s law causes withdrawal of the stress from a weak
> yer to the preceding syllable, that syllable receives
> neo-acute intonation. But what intonation does the next
> syllable receive when the stress is moved forward from an
> initial weak yer? Apparently, in Slovak (though not in
> Czech or Polish) dU``cer- > dcé:r-,

Oh it happens also in Czech and Polish, but dialectally... I think there
are forms like dcóra in both...

> with lengthening of /e/
> (neo-acute?). In kc'i^ / hc^i^, the intonation remains
> falling, but what happens when the newly stressed syllable
> is not final?

Well, the oblique cases in Croatian are G. kće``ri, D. kće``ri which
should derive from *d7``kter- so I guess that answers your question.

And it doesn't just occur when the jor is accent, cf. Kajkavian *v7
ju´´tro > (v) ju^tro.

Mate