Re: Stress shift

Jan van Steenbergen sikyal:

>  --- JS Bangs skrzypszy:
>
> > Other languages are known to have similar processes. Polish switched from
> > the arbitrariliy-stressed Old Church Slavic to its penult stress, and it
> > did it very quickly: 3 or 4 centuries max, I believe.
>
> Basically, that is correct. These things went extremely fast in Polish. I even
> vaguely remember to have read somewhere that Polish also had a period of
> initial stress, like Czech does. Could somebody confirm/dement that?
>
> But as Pavel wrote, Old Church Slavic is not the same as Proto-Slavic, and
> Polish is not a descendant of Old Church Slavic.
Argh! I know this, but since I'm taking an OCS class this quarter it's
always tempting to think that it is. It works as a close approximation for
most circumstances, and I don't know that OCS stress is appreciably
different from Proto-Slavic stress.

> > [...] And Jesus said, "What?"
>
> Great sig!
Thank you!

Note to Andreas: was it me that said that your stress movement was
strange? If so, I apologize for leading you astray.

Soon this quarter will be over and I might be able to rejoin you all in
the land of Light and Conlanging.

Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/

Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?"

And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground
of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our
interpersonal relationship."

And Jesus said, "What?"