Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: *a/*a: ablaut

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53487
Date: 2008-02-17

At 5:36:29 PM on Saturday, February 16, 2008, fournet.arnaud
wrote:

>> One of Miguel's posts includes such
>> reconstructions as

>> *ú:d-an > *wódr.
>> with stressed long vowels and unstressed short ones.

> *wodr is from
> *H2ut?-
> with -o- intrusion

This is completely irrelevant to the issue that I was
addressing, namely, your inaccurate claim that Miguel's
reconstructions have only stressed short and unstressed long
vowels.

Brian

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Ok
You are right on this point.

Now

I consider it farfetched to
work with non-laryngeal *long* vowels
in order to *erase* o.

I think PIE had *a/e *i *o *u as vowels
with no long/short contrasts.

I think the system (*a *a:) *i *i: *e *e:
*u *u: is uselessly complicated
and I think it's not even supported by PIE itself
not to speak about macro-comparative data

Arnaud
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