Re: [tied] How many laryngeals?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 4845
Date: 2000-11-24

_I_ know it ain't compensatory, but many people believe it is. Sorry, I thought you had in mind something like Szemerényi's **-ers > **-err > *-e:r (plus the idea of analogical spread of lengthening to *wo:kWs, etc.).
 
Piotr
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] How many laryngeals?

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 07:21:38 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>I don't think it was. Compensatory lengthening has its own typological regularities and I haven't seen it work like that in any real language.

But it's not _compensatory_ lengthening (e.g. Lat. vo:x, bo:s, the
sigmatic aorist [?]).

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