Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39785
Date: 2005-08-26

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From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]


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> Must I use the example of the same sort of analysis
> showing a "monovocalic Sanskrit" again? Naturally,
> we know that this doesn't mean that IE had only one
> vowel. The analysis is only relevent to Sanskrit
> itself. We can get into all sorts of trouble if we
> blindly project these analyses further back in time
> without deeper consideration.

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Patrick:

PIE had a monovocalic _short_ vowel stage, the vowel I notate as *A, which
became *e/*o/*Ø.

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