Jay Bee wrote:
I was just waxing on how in a hypothetical scenario, Irish might cycle back to being more inflective on it's verbs and nouns because I hear native speakers say not */b'i:oN m'e:/ but as if it's bionn'me, so if that continued over time, the verb might become synthetic again, and as people do this for the past and the future, in such a situation, you might see the same synthetic endings for the past, present (habitual) and future forms
Fair enough, but it's extremely uncommon for lexical words to get any stress anyway. Who says /h'i:z k'ʌmɪŋ/ rather than /hizk'ʌmɪŋ/ anyway?
(NB: I'm aware that English has no short /i/ according to the textbooks, but as everyone I know makes a distinction between /i/ and /ɪ, I don't care what the books say. /hɪk'ʌmɪŋ/ would be "his coming", and seriously, does anyone really pronounce "he's coming" and "his coming" the same?)