From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 55345
Date: 2008-03-16
>At 12:50:44 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2008, alexandru_mg3Thanks Brian for making my point for me.
>wrote:
>
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
>> <miguelc@...> wrote:
>
>>> The problem is that you are unfamiliar with the Greek law of
>>> limitation :-)
>
>> 1. This is one bibliography for you Miguel regarding
>> some 'limitations rules'
>> http://www.stanford.edu/~kiparsky/Papers/opacity2.pdf
>
>> Now please apply it => in order that everybody here to see
>> that Is You that Don't Know to apply this rule (for
>> tHuga'te:r) => I hope that at least finally will be clear
>> for you too that the accent is on the SECOND SYLLABLE (as
>> I said)
>
>Miguel has said all along that the accent is on the second
>syllable. I quote him:
>
> The accent in Greek was retracted to the _first_ syllable,
> under the influence of the vocative (thúgater), or the
> word for mother (mé:te:r), or both.
>
> By the law of limitation, *thúgate:r becomes thugáte:r.
>
>Read that last line again: unattested <thúgate:r> becomes
>attested <thugáte:r> by the law of limitation. That is an
>explicit statement that the attested accent is on the second
>syllable. You're not beating a dead horse: you're beating a
>figment of your imagination. Wasting all that indignation
>on something that never happened can't be good for your
>digestion.