Re: [tied] How many laryngeals?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 4838
Date: 2000-11-24

I don't think it was. Compensatory lengthening has its own typological regularities and I haven't seen it work like that in any real language.
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] How many laryngeals?

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:01:23 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>I'm pretty sure, for example, that the Nom.sg. of a:-feminines is like other consonantal nominatives, i.e. derives from underlying *-e:h2 rather than just *-eh2.

Depends on what one thinks caused the lengthening.  I take it you
don't think it was *-z, przepraszam, *-s?