[tied] Re: *kW- "?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:
> >> > So the anomalous languages are Albanian, Luwian and Aremenian,

all on

> >> > the southern fringe of the satem area, in which the merger *kW > *k
> >> > did not occur immediately.

<snip>

> OK, but how can you still derive all of this from only 2 original velar
> series? If I'm not mistaken, that was your basis.

No, I support the 3-way distinction. I was defending the notion of
Luwian being in the satem area.

Richard.