On 2008-11-18 17:41, bmscotttg wrote:
> Search the archives for 'O-fix'.
For the particular problem we are discussing, see:
Jens Elmegård Rasmussen. 1999. "A new rule of Indo-European accent:
Greek tórmos/kormós; Germanic *waiþo:/*skando:" [originally published in
APILKU 5, 1986]. In: _Selected Papers on Indo-European Linguistics: With
a Section on Comparative Eskimo Linguistics_, Museum Tusculanum Press,
157-169.
Jens is of course aware of the ordering paradox noticed by Pavel. He
proposes virtually the same solution: "The vanishing of the laryngeal in
the heavy cluster group must ... have begun before the infix was
vocalized, but cannot have been completed till a later period. This
means that at some intermediate stage we shall have to accept the
existence of a reduced pronunciation of the laryngeals that were later
to be dropped."
Piotr