Re: [tied] Tocharian dentals

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:27:24 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>I follow Winter's position as laid out in "Vertretung indogermanischer Dentale im Tocharishen" (IF 67, 1965) and summarised in "Armenian, Tocharian, and the 'glottalic' theory" (1992). I find his examples compelling.

Me too, for the most part. Except that my photocopy of "Vertretung"
was scattered among a pile of papers in a closet, and I had Adams'
"Tocharian" right beside me. [BTW, Adams does a very bad job of
summarizing Winter in his footnote: he claims Winter has <ts> as the
*palatalized* reflex of *d].

>(3) In the "Grassmann environment" (initially in a root containing another aspirate) *dH- > *d- > ts-
>
> tsäk- 'burn' < *dH..gWH- 'burn'
>
>(This verb belongs to a conjugation [Krause's Class VIII] that shows no palatalisation of root-initial consonants, i.e. no inherited e-grade.)

So which grade *does* it have? "u-grade"?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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