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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 30807
Date: 2004-02-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > Your alternation two (a/o/zero) is made up by you, not me. You
> > provide the examples.
>
> Aaagh!! That's the curse of these conferences. People forget
what we're
> talking about. It is me that is claiming there are no examples. I
said /a/
> is /a/ and therfore different from the ablaut vowel. Someone else
was
> suggesting that /a/ patterned like /e~o~zero/. And I've gone and
forgotten
> who ...
>

So now that's cleared up. But as can be seen from the examples Miguel
provided, /a/ does alternate /a ~ zero/. Which makes sense if it is
from an older stage of IE where /a ~ รค/ (or /a ~&/) hadn't yet
become /e ~ o/.

Torsten