Roussou and Probert (2023: 235–297) put forward some new discoveries bearing on the
accentuation of sequences of consecutive ancient Greek enclitics, and a new descriptive claim as to
the way in which host words plus sequences of consecutive enclitics were accented. This chapter
takes some first steps towards a new account of Greek metrical phonology from which the proposed
descriptive facts would follow, and argues that doing so helps us with three open questions in ancient
Greek phonology: (a) What phonological principles underly the placement of the Greek word accent,
including the restrictions known as the “law of limitation”? (b) Did ancient Greek have “resonant
diphthongs”? (c) Is the law of limitation sensitive to the weight of the word-final syllable, or the
length of its vowel?
