Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39324
Date: 2005-07-19

 
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Subject: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@......> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@......> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
> <jer@......>


> What is *k^era?-tó-s a quotation from?

Oh, I see now, it's from Patrick Ryan's posting. I was afraid for a
second I had made a silly mistake and now had to face the music. It
gives me occasion to say that the desperate "alternatives" of
Patrick's of course are unacceptable because they derive the Greek
forms from special Greek zero-grades.
 
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Patrick:
 
Why do you always have to be so snide?
 
There is nothing 'desperate' about my alternatives. They incorporate developments I have been writing about in other contexts — for years — so they were not desperately 'found' for those examples.
 
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 If we are to make any use of
the belief that Greek is an Indo-European language we must depart
from protoforms where zerograde has already been reached. Therefore
we cannot reinstate full grade and start all over again reducing it
in the separate history of Greek. I suppose that was also your
point, right?

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Patrick:
 
So, no zero-grade in Late PIE?
 
 
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