How many velar series in P.I.E? (was Re: [tied] *kW- "?")

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
wrote:

> Ever since I read Lehmann's argument I've been puzzled why
> more Indo-Europeanists (at least those on this list) don't
> seem to accept it, and also why the Nostraticists (at least
> those on Nostratic-L) are trying to take off from a P.I.E.
> with three velar series when its earliest stages would have
> had no more than two.
>
> What's wrong with Lehmann's view?

First, that he does not give valid reasons. Second, that the facts are
against his choice: Take Pokorny or LIV and you will find quite many
roots beginning with *ke-, i.e. roots attested in satem languages and
showing velar, not palatal before the reflex of *e.

Jens