[tied] Re: Question on Albanian sy

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Not all of them, some intervocalic d passed to dh and remained
> > there...
> > My understanding is that we need at least three syllables to

can have

> > this reduction....
>
> No. The surviving -dh- in such cases is either an old affricate

(i.e. *3

> from *g^ or *g^H), which was not deleted, or a *d analogically

restored

> before a suffix. There are many disyllabic forms with the loss of
> intervocalic *d, cf. Lat. vadu- --> Alb. va 'ford'.
>
> Piotr
>

Hello Piotr,
I remember the folowing rule :

1. V-d-V > V-dh-V (together with the rule 2. rd > rdh )

but I don't remember now the examples for the rule 1.

Also the intermediate stage of d > zero has great chances to be
dh...and the lost of this d has depended on the stress pattern too.

But I need to check this...
Best Regards,
marius