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

>At least in the examples of *ka- I was looking at yesterday, /a/ is fully
>capable of disappearing itself in zero-grade forms [confirming that /a/ in
>these cases is what would otherwise have been /e/ if not coloured by *k].

Could you give me some examples, please?

>I also don't think that *i and *u can always be analyzed as allophones of
>*y and *w. E.g. the 2sg. personal pronoun is *tú (~ *tú:), with full-grade
>*u(:).

I agree with you, and didn't intend to restart a discussion we had earlier.
My point was more that PIE /a/ seems to have a different function both from
/i,u/ and from /e,o/.

Peter