Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

> As I said repeatedly over and over, the "strengthening" occurs in
> **PARADIGMATIC** alternations! Are compounds extensions of

declensional

> paradigms in your mind?

Yes! We are talking allomorphs here.

> I don't see how roots found in compounds have
> anything to do with their individual declensional paradigms. The

fact

> that we find *pd- in compounds has nothing to do with the declension
> of *pod- where *pd- is just not found. We have genitive *pedos, not
> **pdos.

Compounds come in three overlapping groups - those you learn as a
unit and never analyse, those you learn as a unit but later analyse,
and those you form on the spur of the moment. The form of a noun you
use in the last type of compound is effectively another inflectional
variation, certainly as much as a Latin locative or a vocative. So,
if you strengthen a bare form for intelligibility, why wouldn't you
do so in a compound created on the fly?

Richard.