Re: Slavic a.p. II

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53024
Date: 2008-02-14

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

As I have mentioned here before, I think that Balto-Slavic
had three basic accent paradigms instead of two, as is
usually assumed. Besides the accent paradigm with fixed
stress on the root (a.p. I, Lithuanian a.p. 1/2), and the
accent paradigm with mobile stress alternating between
initial and final position (a.p. III, Lithuanian a.p. 3/4),
I believe there was also an accent paradigm (I call it a.p.
II) with fixed stress on the thematic vowel. In the verbal
system, this accentual type is abundant, comprising the
large majority of verbs in -je-, -ne-, -de- and -i-, and a
sizeable minority of the e-verbs.

In the nominal system, however, only two categories belonged
to type II: oxytone neuters in *-ó, and compound nouns with
a stressed suffix like *-ikó- or *-otá:.
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It looks quite natural.
So I would readily agree with this.

Did this set of three paradigms exist in PIE too ?


What is a.p. ?
accent paradigm ?

Arnaud
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