Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: *a/*a: ablaut

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53483
Date: 2008-02-17

> We're talking about a modelisation of PIE where unstressed
> vowels are only long while stressed ones are only short.
Arnaud
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No, we're not. One of Miguel's posts includes such
reconstructions as

*ú:d-an > *wódr.
Brian
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1. Which languages support u: ?
2. Macro-Comparison shows that
this root is ngut?-> H2w_d
This example is tainted.
Arnaud
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*pú:nt-ax-m > *pónth2m.,
Brian
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Which languages support u: in this word ?
Arnaud
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both with stressed long vowels and unstressed short ones.
Brian
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I think we should first discuss the words that
may have a long stressed vowel
not from laryngeal
Arnaud
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