Re: [tied] PIE Reconstruction

P&G wrote:

> We can recover the presence of a laryngeal also from:
> (a) the effect on consonants (e.g. aspiration in Indo-Iranian)
> (b) the effect on prosodic patterns (e.g. Brugmann's Law in I-I)
> (c) the effect on accent (e.g. in Serbian, Croat, Lithuanian etc)
> (d) the outcome of voiced resonants (e.g. Greek /a/ versus /na:/ ~ /ana/)
> etc.

And (e) the lengthening effect in sandhi, e.g.

*n.-h1s-(e)nt- > RV á:sat- 'non-existent'. Here, the lengthening betrays
the presence of a laryngeal, and the uncoloured *e reflected as such in
most IE branches shows the laryngeal to be *h1.

Piotr