'Laryngeal' Theory to be replaced by Vocalic Theory?

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58396
Date: 2008-05-08

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>> Patrick:
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>> Name one single PIE root, if you can, that is *VC.
>>
>> Affixes are fused usually monosyllabic roots; notable exception -*Hei,
>> 'dative', from *He(:)i-, 'go to'.
>>
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> You are confusing roots and affixes
> but never mind.
>
> PIE *i "anaphoric pronoun"
> seems very close to #V# This is a minimal root of PIE.
>
> This *i is affixed to pronouns in Greek and LAtin in plural
> and it counts for nil in the position of stress in these languages.
>
> PIE Dative-locative is -(e)i
> there is no H.
> As M. Carrasquer-Vidal recently explained it to you.
> As usual, you don't listen to what you are said.
> I'm not sure what the verb "to go" was
> but semantically it obviously cannot have any relationship with a
> locative.
>
> Arnaud
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