Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:35:19 +0200 (CEST), Mate Kapović
<mkapovic@...> wrote:

>On Sri, svibanj 24, 2006 10:40 am, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any traces whatsoever of Winter's law in Albanian?
>>> The other day I discovered a major error in my thinking
>>> about the Balto-Slavic merger of /a/ and /o/, which I had
>>> assumed to be Proto-Balto-Slavic or even pre-Balto-Slavic,
>>> possibly Proto-Balto-Slavo-Albano-Indo-Irano-Germanic :-)
>>
>> Isn't it trivial enough to be disqualified as evidence of relatedness?
>
>I would certainly not put Indo-Iranian to this supposed *o > *a group.
>There, *e > *a also, which makes this quite a different change most
>probably.

It *could* have been the first step (a=o shared with others,
followed by exclusively I-I e=a/o), but since /a/ and /o/ do
not actually merge in Indo-Iranian (Brugmann's law!), you're
right that it's a separate phenomenon.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...