Fortunatov–de Saussure Law
The Fortunatov–de Saussure law, or de Saussure's law, is an Accentology, accentological law discovered independently by the Russian linguist Filipp Fortunatov (1895) and the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1896). Overview According to Fortunatov's 1895 theory, the verbosity in the "Proto-Lithuanian-Slavic" language shifts the stress from the preceding syllable if the articulation did not have an extension. Thus, in the word for "beard" in Russian and Lithuanian, the accent shifted from the root to the ending since the root had an intermittent length, and the ending is the extended length. However, in the word "crow" in Russian and Lithuanian the accent was preserved in the root since it is elongated. In Russian and Lithuanian the word "beard" had no accent shift since the ending of the accusative case has an intermittent length. According to de Saussure's formulation of 1896, the accent in Lithuanian was regularly shifted to the next syllable when it fell on a syllabl ...
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Fortunatov's Law
Fortunatov's law is the observation, in the development of Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan from Proto-Indo-European, that when ''*l'' is followed by a dental consonant, the dental becomes retroflex and the ''*l'' is deleted, eg. PIE ''*bʰelsos'' > Sanskrit ''bhā́ṣā'', Lithuanian ''bal̃sas'' and PIE *''poltos'' > Sanskrit ''paṭa'', Greek ''péltē'', Farsi ''parde''. This law is not uniform. See also * Glottalic theory * Grassmann's law * Stigler's law of eponymy References

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