Appendix talk:Ancient Greek contraction

An overly zealous assertion regarding accentuation of recessive-accented wordss in crasis: It is not necessarily true that accents donnot cross between contracted words.

a. If the second word is a dissyllabic paroxytone with short ultima, it is uncertain whether, in crasis, the paroxytone remains or changes to properispomenon. In this book τοὔργον, τἄλλα are written for τὸ ἔργον, τὰ ἄλλα; but many scholars write τοὖργον, τἆλλα. Herbert Weir Smith, A Greek Grammar for colleges §173.a 97.67.246.85 23:57, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Further, J.P. Postgate claims, not only can some words in crasis retain both accents as approproate (τύχἀγαθῇ), but also that it is specifically when the second word is long-by-position-paroxytone, being accented on its third mora, shows itself circumflex over the new long vowel instead of acute over over the short vowel with an unwritten grave over a consonant. (See "A short guide..." §§303-6)

In other words, καὶ ὅδε as χὤδε, being equivalent to χὤ + δε-inseparable (enclitic,) keeps the accent of ὅ.

καὶ ἅμα, being accented the second mora, becomes χἄμα.

However, ἔργον and ἄλλα are accented on the third mora. When in crasis and the vowel is lengthened, they become τἆλλα and τοὖργον because that is where the third mora has moved. 97.67.246.85 16:07, 12 August 2023 (UTC)