From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6759
Date: 2001-03-26
>To my knowledge, the current reconstruction is *DuSa, where *DThanks for the info. I have no decent materials on PAN. Any
>represents a probable retroflex stop (Formosan languages allow the
>reconstruction of at least 2 other d-sounds with very mixed reflexes
>in all other MP languages). The *S is one of our so-called
>laryngeals, >Formosan s, s^ usually, Philippine h, most other MP
>zero. The form *DewSa or older *Dewha was proposed by I. Dyen back
>in the 60s and has been abandoned by all but his partisans: it
>served to explain only l or 2 aberrant Phil. forms, and posited the
>unique pre-consonantal sequence *-ew- which occurred only in this
>form.
>
>I personally have never been totally convinced by the (large) number
>of "laryngeals" posited on the basis of Formosan evidence only. This
>remains a rather controversial area in AN studies.