Re: [tied] Re: Ford -furta- fare

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:24:37 -0000, "Torsten Pedersen"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>Thank you, Miguel, for the quotes. Actually I was worried we had the
>only copies of Møller's original books here.

I got mine from de Slegte's 2nd hand book department ("f 27.50, minder
fraai ex.") years ago. I've never had the time to study it in depth,
though.

>I've read him a lot, and
>all I can say is I have never caught him in any glaring
>inconsistencies. The problem is, I know nothing about AA except what
>I can read in Orel & Stolbova, so I can't pass judgement how well he
>has constructed his system of phonetic rules.

Møller's Semitic and Pre-Indo-Euro-Semitic, with its 8 x 8 series of
obstruents (fortis stops-emphatic fortis stops-fortis
fricatives-emphatic fortis fricatives-lenis stops-emphatic lenis
stops-lenis fricatives-emphatic lenis fricatives x
labials-interdentals-dentals-alveolopalatals-palatolaveolars-labiovelars-
velars-postvelars) is a bit over the top.

>Cuny (and perhaps
>Møller? I don't have the books here) came up with the idea that the
>PIE e/o alternation was actually a schwa/a alternation, an idea
>Bomhard ascribes to Pulleyblank (much later). I think he and Cuny
>got a bad rap, probably because he wrote in German, and at that time
>the Germans were not quite ripe for the idea of a connection IE-AA.

Everybody who was somebody in linguistics write in German at the time.
Evan franco- and anglophones.


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