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202 Proto-lndo-European MorphologyIn tbe case of the fonner, the suffix in the weak stem is zero grade and theending full grade; in that of the fonner, the suffix of the weak stem is fullgrade, and the ending is zero grade. Pedersen uses the terms (p. 24 note I):'' 'F/exion forle ' el 'jIexion faible ' de F de Saussure" (--? Saussure Memoire1879 = Recueif 1922 p. 187, I 94ff., 205ff.)."Mais ces lermes prelenl a la confusion avec les expressions 'slark ' el'schwach ' de la grammaire des langues germaniques, el en soi ifsn 'exprimenl pas la vraie nalure du contrasle entre les deux types. Enadoplanl le mol OVYallll; au sens de 'degre vocalique fori ' on pourrailpeul-elre forger les lermes 'jIexion hyslerodyname ' [of the type 1lO-nlP, orpilcl] et 'jIexion prOlerodyname ' [ofthe type sUnu-s]."In other words, Pedersen distinguishes on the one hand what he caJls the hysterodynamicinflection type with its strong stem (according to the schema:zero grade unstressed root, full grade stressed suffix, and zero grade unstressedending) and weak stem (according to the schema: zero grade unstressedroot, zero grade unstressed suffix, and full grade stressed ending), andon the other hand, what he calls the proterodynamic inflection type with astrong stem (according to the scbema: full grade stressed root, zero gradeunstressed suffix and zero grade unstressed ending) and weak stem (accordingto the scbema: zero grade unstressed root, full grade stressed suffix, and zerograde unstressed ending).4) Pedersen makes clear that the original combinations of stressed fullgrade and unstressed zero grade' are only rarely preserved in the lE languages.Thus, a large number of analogies and innovations have taken place in extantlE paradigms. In the case of nom sg. sUnUs, for example, neither the zerograde stem, nor the stressed zero grade suffix correspond with the postulatedproterodynamic ending form *se1}il-nu-s. In that of the Vedic gen. sg. pi-tur(with -Iur