Re: [tied] How many laryngeals?

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 4816
Date: 2000-11-23

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:01:14 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<mcv@...> wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:19:40 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
><gpiotr@...> wrote:

>>Martinet's "laryngeal fission" *-eh3-o- > *-eh2wo- > *-a:wo- looks good on paper, but it can be shown that intrusive *w may appear in hiatus after *o: of any origin, e.g. *sto:h2-eje- > *stavi- 'to place' in Slavic (the causative of *stah2- 'stand').
>
>I don't understand the o: here. Wouldn't the causative of *steh2- be
>*stoh2-eje- (> *sta:ï:-), not sto:h2-eje-? Slavic a: merged with o:
>and may have been [O:] in PBS (giving rise to the glide then), before
>being fronted again in Slavic.

Sorry, shouldn't post when I'm sleepy. I agree *h2 does not colour
*o, so stoh2-ey-e- > *sto:ï: etc.

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