--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:16:42 -0000, "tgpedersen"
> In English, þ- remains (except in a more or less closed
> > category of words where it is ð-),
The "more or less closed" (which means?) category of words where PIE
#t- becomes not #T- but #D- corresponds to the category of words in
Scandinavian (non-insular North Germanic) where PIE #t- becomes not
#t- but #d-, eg. <du> "thou", <der> "there", <den> "that one",
<det> "that", ie. particles and pronouns. To account for this
phenomenon, Danish scholars have proposed a Verner-like mechanism,
observing that in connected speech, and given the frequent subject-
verb inversion, these words end up in unstressed syllables, almost as
if belonging to the preceding stressed word; and so the "if initial"
condition doesn't apply.
Therefore (in this case) T- > D-, and then (in the general case) T >
t, D > d.
> > =======================
> > Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> > mcv@...
>
Torsten