>>OK, thank you very much. Was this
disappearance of /a/ (= /&/ ?) in the first syllable part of a general
disappearance of /a/ in Etruscan?
>I don't think so. A language without
any a-like vowels (with at least allophonic status) would be a typological
oddity. An unmarked vowel will occur frequently to compensate for its tendency
to be elided. Anyway, I haven't yet said that Glen's analysis of Tyrrhenian is
correct. I only proposed a mechanism that could account for the kind of effect
suggested by Glen.
OK, thanks.
>BTW, his stress rule is the mirror
image of the Old French stress pattern: stress the final syllable unless it
contains schwa (in which case stress the penult). Note also that French
final-syllable schwa typically derived from Proto-Romance *a
Piotr
Yes, but this proto-Romance -a was not
stressed (and proto-Romance -o and -e had disappeared before - in Spanish (and
Italian) it's -e that has disappeared, not -o and -a). In Etruscan the first
syllable is stressed. Wouldn't this reduce the possiblity of
disappearing?
Marc