Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

It would be nice if you were a little more selective in what you
quote. It aids in readability. It wastes time getting through a
long wall of text that has already been read just to find what
you've recently said.


Jens:

>As verbal roots, their radical elements are *ped- 'go, fall'[...]
>and *H3reg^- respectively. The root noun 'foot' is based on a
>lengthened-grade root form *pe:d-, and the root present of 'govern'
>has lengthened grade in Skt. ra:j- (3sg ra:s.t.i), so it is hard to see,
>let alone prove, a fundamental difference in their vowels.

Well, that takes the cake. I show the strong forms *pod- and *hWreg-
which demonstrate all too clearly that they contain a different vowel
and Jens rejects that which is right before his eyes. I don't get it.

Now apparently Jens is reinterpreting morphology such that the weak
forms are the default. They aren't, but I guess that makes Jens happy.

>I do not know what you mean when you say "o-present".

Presents containing *o in the nucleus of the root that have not been
reduplicated.

>These are not properties ascribable to the root vowels,[...]

Exactly. Why? Because underlying all IE forms are at least _two_
pre-IE vowels.


- gLeN

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