Re: [tied] Animate Dual in -h3 (was: IE Roots)

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:47:52 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>>Why should Proto-Kartvelian speakers have had considerations for
>>markedness issues in PIE phonology? The allophone of /k/ before
>>/t/ is necessarily front, nothing to do with satem.
>
>Alright, so you're saying that Kartvelians couldn't pronounce *k
>before *t, is that it?

No. All that's necessary is for them to have pronounced it differently.

>Kartvelian had no such allophone of *k and we know
>that IE *k was plain and non-palatal.

No we don't. We know it had front allophones, otherwise there never would
have been a satem shift in the first place.

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