Re: [tied] Albanian (1)

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:13:25 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:21:54 +0000, Richard Wordingham
>> <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
>>
>> >I see no contradiction here. PIE short /o/ (pace Miguel) and /a/
>> >merged in both Slavic (as /o/) and Albanian (as /a/).
>>
>> Why pace Miguel?
>
>Because you interpret Brugmann's law (/o/ -> /a:/ in open syllables)
>as evidence that 'short /o/' was actually long, and interpret
>Brugmann's law as merely the observation that it retained its length
>in open syllables, or perhaps putting it better, as being something
>like '/a:/ -> /a/ in closed syllables'. Conventional long /a:/
>and /o:/ can then emerge from coalescence of vowels and laryngeals.

Yes, but Brugmann's law does not apply to Slavic or Albanian. It doesn't
even apply to Luwian, where according to Melchert the distribution is *ó >
/a:/ (all stressed syllables, including closed ones), *o > /a/ (all
unstressed syllables).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...