Re: [tied] Re: *kW- "?"

> Miguel on *q > *k:
>> Because it happened only once, _before_ the breakup
>> of PIE.
>
> Erh, me don't get it... Here's the apparent scenario
> at the onset of the satem isogloss:
>
> Centum dialects (at least most of them):
> *k > *k
> *q > *k
>
> All Satem dialects:
> *k > *c^
> *q > *k
>
> Satem dialects could not evolve the way they did if
> the common IE sound system performed *q > *k "before
> the breakup" because this stop must be _marked_. It
> simply cannot be "plain" when IE was first
> fragmenting into dialects.

But if you insist on only one occurence of *k > *c^, it could not have
been a very late change since we have your *c^ already in Anatolian. Thus,
we should have *q > k and *k > *c^ before Anatolian split off according to
the "uvular" theory. Or?

Mate