Re: Sos-

Oops! Sorry, correction:

I must have explained myself badly. I am not positing accent type shifting, only showing what I think happened to the 3 PPPIE vowels /a/, /i/ and /u/ in tonic, post-tonic and pre-tonic position. Maybe I should write it like this:

PPPIE -á:-/´-a:-/-a:-´ > PPIE -é:-/´-o:-/-Ø-´
PPPIE -í:-/´-i:-/-i:-´ > PPIE -éI-/´-i:-/-i-´
PPPIE -ú:-/´-u:-/-u:-´ > PPIE -óU-/´-u:-/-u-´

and then, by analogy

PPIE -é:-/´-o:-/-Ø-´ > PIE -é-/´-o(:)-/-Ø-´
PPIE -éI-/´-i:-/-i-´ > PIE -éI-/´-oI-/-i-´
PPIE -óU-/´-u:-/-u-´ > PIE -éU-/´-oU-/-u-´

(sorry for all the P's, I needed three stages)


Torsten