Re: Volcae and Volsci

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:04:50 -0000, "Anders R. Joergensen"
<ollga_loudec@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
>wrote:
>>
>>
>> Henry Lewis and Holger Pedersen in "A Concise Comparative
>> Celtic Grammar" (1937, 3rd. ed. 1974) posit Kluge's law for
>> Celtic.
>>
>
>Yes, and Lühr published a long article on the matter
>(Sprachwissentschaft 10 (1985): 274-346). Getting the PIE accent
>involved may of course help with the numerous counter-examples, but it
>will be hard to control, given that we have no other trace of PIE
>accent in Celtic.

Except perhaps Dybo's pretonic long vowel shortening law.
Another tricky one, but there must be some truth in it.

The fact that the law (Kluge's, I mean) worked in exactly
the same way in Germanic (also in pretonic position only)
makes it all the more plausible that the same conditioning
applied in Celtic. In fact, I find it very hard to avoid
thinking that it is the _same_ law in both Germanic and
Celtic.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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