From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 55346
Date: 2008-03-16
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH- too => and the accent of
Grk. *dHugh2ter
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:07:51 -0400, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> >At 12:50:44 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2008, alexandru_mg3
> >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 The accent in Greek was retracted to the _first_ syllable,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.
>
> Thanks Brian for making my point for me.
>
> This afternoon I made turbot poached in court-bouillon with
> velouté sauce on top, grilled in the oven. I didn't feel
> like ruining my appetite or digestion.
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>
>