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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> Apparently you aren't paying attention. According to
> my viewpoint, *h1 _is_ necessary to disambiguate
> cases of circumflex from those that don't cause
> circumflex. It also preserves the rules of
> phonotactics that disallow the sequence of two vowels
> one after the other in IE.
>
> Honestly, languages that allow two vowels one after
> the other are far rarer than those that disallow this.
> So... Occam's Razor is on my side.
>

This makes sense provided that your h1 = glottal stop.
That is what you mean, don't you?

Lars