Pronunciation of EIMI? and What's a CTL?

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Mon Dec 30 20:44:02 EST 2002


At 01:08 PM 12/30/02 EST, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/30/02 10:17:07 AM, scarlson at mindspring.com writes:
>>On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:01:46 -0500 Brian McCarthy <mccartbs at utrc.utc.com> wrote:
>>> 1:  Where is the accent on EIMI?  The first of the second syllable?
>>
>>If it is on the first syllable with the circumflex accent (EI=MI), it means "I
>>go."  If the accent is on the second syllable (EIMI/), it means "I am."
>>
>I would clarify Stephen's comments slightly. Technically EIMI, "to be" is 
>enclitic, i.e., depends on the preceding. If EIMI follows another enclitic or 
>proclitic and must have an accent, the accent is always on the last syllable. 
>EI=MI, "to go" never occurs in the GNT except in compound verbs.

Thanks for the fine point.

Stephen
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