PIE Short? /o/ (was: Re: [tied] Albanian (1))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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 ...

> 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).

I thought you might object to the phrase 'short /o/' because you
have gathered evidence that it was *not* a short vowel. I wasn't
saying you disputed the correspondences.

Richard.