Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 30019
Date: 2004-01-26

Mate:
>And with this we have the evidence that *k' > k in Hittite so there is no
>much point in saying that *k' simply cannot become *k because it is very
>unlikely.

It's not that it CAN'T become such, however why multiply unlikely
hypotheses?
We're already dealing with the unlikelihood of a system with *[k^ k kW] and
now you want to add more craziness with *k^ > *k. Now the theory has
gone from "unlikely" to "super-unlikely". I had mentioned the idea that
Anatolian itself might suffer its own "centum-satem" division. What about
that idea?


= gLeN

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