Re: Ligurian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> W dniu 2012-05-01 14:13, Anders pisze:
>
> > Do we have corroborating evidence for this chronology, i.e. *o: > *a:
> > before Osthoff's Law in Celtic? Intuitively, I'd suspect *o:RC > *oRC in
> > Celtic, but I'm not aware of any examples at the moment.
>
> We do have some evidence of *o: > *u: in _final_ syllables before RC,
> namely the acc.pl. thematic ending *-o:ns, as recently argued by Ronald Kim.
>
> Piotr
>

Yeah, that could indicate that *o: was eliminated before Osthoff. Of course, *o: > u: in final syllables and *o: > a: elsewhere need not be dated at the same time.

*e: > *i: does seem to have preceded Osthoff, judging by the evidence for a 3sg. aorist *birt < *bi:rst < *bHe:r-s-t.

Anders