LL-L "Etymology" 2005.08.17 (03) [E]

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From: daniel prohaska <danielprohaska at bluewin.ch>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.08.11 (04) [E]


From: Paul Finlow-Bates danielprohaska at bluewin.ch
Subject: LL-L "Etymology”

Paul,

By way of comparison. The stress patterns of the older PIE languages were 
compared, and corroborated against further evidence and so forth. Of course 
there is a rather largish margin of error involved and there are never any 
absolutes, but stress and sound changes are not isolated phenomena but are 
interconnected and stress can have a great impact on the sound development 
of language sounds.

Things like Verner’s Law help prove that certain assumptions for PIE stress 
derived from Sanskrit and Greek were correct. Stress is assumed to have been 
free in PIE (not predictable), just as it is in Sanskrit. Since Germanic 
with its predictable initial stress preserves some indication of the older 
PIE stress patterns (in Verner’s Law) and there is little probability of 
Sanskrit and Germanic to have had a prolonged common development I believe 
the assumption about PIE stress to have been free is correct, at least in 
thze period before the break up of the PIE dialect continuum into separate 
language “branches”.

Dan

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.08.11 (01) [E]


“How do linguists reconstruct accent or stress? sound shift I can 
understand,
by comparing existing languages, but how can we tell which syllable they
emphasised in PIE times?
Paul”

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