Re: [tied] Re: No Verner in Gothic verbs?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 49290
Date: 2007-07-03

tgpedersen pisze:

> Exactly. They have *-éje- which contains a stressed syllable, so you
> can't use them as an example of what Verner does in unstressed syllables.

What VL does in all sorts of stress environments can be seen outside the
verb system. Verbs which REALLY occurred without stress (grammatical
words) show the operation of VL in Germanic, including Gothic: *(h1)esmi
> *izmi > *immi > im, *(h1)senti > *sinDi > sind.

Piotr