Re: Saussure laryngeal loss

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen <elme@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen <elme@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G.and.P@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've come across a couple of references recently to "Saussure's
> law
> > of laryngeal loss". It refers to the loss of h1 between
> consonants.
> > However, one place seems to suggest the "law" applies to h1 after

a

> > resonant, while another seems to suggest it is only after an o-
> grade.
> > Does anyone have more details?
> >
> > Yes. I wrote a book about it: Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen, Studien

zur

> > Morphophonemik der indogermanischen Grundsprache, Innsbruck 1989.
> The
> > second half of that book explains what this is all about.
> >
> > There is a digest on cybalist in message # 30490 IIRC.
> >
> > Jens
> >
>
> Sorry, I didn't; it's message # 30940.
>
> Jens
>

On the topic of the "infixed sonant" that you mention elsewhere on a
similar topic (http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?
A2=ind0004&L=indo-european&D=0&P=2621): correct me if I'm wrong, but
are you saying it would originally have been just an epenthetic schwa
that took the place of the laryngeal, or that the laryngeal became
voiced, before being reanalyzed as an ablauting vowel?