Re: [tied] Re: Syncope

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, elmeras2000 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
>
>
> > Of course,
> > it's not "reckless" because it follows the most recent
> > rules of IE -- a lack of regard for quantitative ablaut.
>
> That is simply not true. QUANTITAtive ablaut has indeed worked here.
> And if it hasn't, and what we find is not reckless but in keeping
> with morphological habits of younger periods I would like to see
> other transparent younger formations that productively behave in the
> same way. You asked for the question, now you got it: where is that
> transparent basis of yours?

Sorry, I mistyped this the first time around. The question is important
and should not be distorted. On this corrected basis I may perhaps expect
an answer?

Jens