Re: Germanic 'bear'

From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 68809
Date: 2012-03-06

2012/3/6, Tavi <oalexandre@...>:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>>
>> > I strongly disagree. Grassmann's Law only applies to those IE
> languages
>> > which have true aspirated stops in series III, so IMHO there's no
>> > justification for reconstructing a "voiced aspirated" (or whatever
> other
>> > name you choose) series in PIE.
>>
>> You don't accept [± spread glottis] as a valid distinctive feature?
> So
>> how would you like to encode breathy voice in phonological terms?
>>
> Alhtough I won't reconstruct them for PIE, I think IE-ists should at
> least use IPA standard symbols (a superscript [h\]).
>
>
>
I do