Re: [tied] *pYerkW+

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2007-05-22 00:33, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
> > I need nu/ni/mi/etc. for forms that would show the
> > development of nw>ww>uw/etc. I don't think that
> nu+
> > and n.o+ are directly related (I reconstruct a
> > different nasal for each).
>
> It puzzles me how -ni- is supposed to illustrate the
> development of -nw-
> to -u-.

I wrote "etc." instead of the chain 3 times (C-mi
but C-my > C-yy > C-iy). I say the words showing
final u/ni/mi all come from nu+s uw+ but even if they
are all dif. forms they would each show the same broad
rule.

> Id also like to see a real-world example of
> "metathesis" turning
> -nu- into -mi-. You call it plausible, but it looks
> anything but
> plausible to me. It may look good on paper, but if
> articulator features
> were free to migrate like that, changes like tu > pi
> would happen at
> least occasionally; yet I've never seen anything of
> the sort.

What other PIE words have a morpheme +mi+s? I don't
know of anything else exactly like tu > pi. However,
since tw > p does exist I think it's possible. That
is, w = +round but u = i+round. When the feature
+round moves to t (only specified by C) C+round > p.
If the round feature moves from u it leaves i; from w
it leaves nothing.





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