Re: Slavic a.p. II

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:47:37 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>
>----- Original Message -----
>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:.
>==============
>It looks quite natural.
>So I would readily agree with this.
>
>Did this set of three paradigms exist in PIE too ?

No. The Balto-Slavic system is based on a system where most
consonant stems were mobile (with end-stress in the
non-neuter Nsg., the Gsg. and Isg., the neuter NApl., and
the plural & dual oblique, non-final/initial stress
elsewhere), and vowel stems (-o-, -eh2- > -a:-, -i- and -u-)
had columnal accentuation, either on the root or on the
thematic vowel. The oxytone V-stems then copied the
mobility of the C-stems (PBS *draugás, *draugám becoming
*draugás, *dráugam on the model of *dukté:r, *dúkterim or
*akmó:n, *ákmenim).

In the verb, something similar happened, with the barytone
e-stems copying the sg. vs. pl./du. mobility of the C-stems
(*béro:, *béramas => *béro:, *beramás like *ésmi, *(e)smás).

The PIE C-stems did originally have a number of different
accent paradigms (static, proterodynamic, amphidynamic and
hysterodynamic), and traces of mobility can be seen in the
V-stems (e.g. i-stem Gsg. *-éis vs. *yés/*-yós, or o-stem
Dsg. *-õi < *-o-éi vs. Lsg. -oi < *-ó-(e)i),

>What is a.p. ?
>accent paradigm ?

Yes.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
miguelc@...