Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

No, this new theory settles the matter once and for all.

Jens

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, aquila_grande <aquila_grande@...> wrote:

> In the standard Laryngeal theory, the following events are depicted
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> -The presense of some sounds called laryngeals
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> -The tuning of the laryngeals upon neighbour wovels. O-tuning, a-
> tuning, e-tuning
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> -The loss of laryngeals, with accompanying legthening of the wovel
> before the laryngeal.
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> In the theory of ablaut the following events are depicted:
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> -Some time when unstressed short wovels disappared and long
> unstressed wovels rendered a schwa-sound, thus creating the
> quantitive ablaut.
>
> -Some time when the wovel "e" was tuned to "o" or sometimes "a", thus
> creating the qualitative ablut. Some scolars think this was effected
> by tune accent patterns, other by neighbouring consonants.
>
> -Some time when some wovels were lengthened, creating the lengthened
> grade of the quantitive ablaut.
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> It seems to me that these two theories could be combined, totally or
> partly, rendering a theory of the following kind:
>
> -Some time when unstressed short wovels disappeared and long
> unstressed wovels rendered a schwa-sound, thus creating the
> quantitive ablaut. In the presense of some consonants - espesially
> laryngeals the process rendered a shwa-sound instead of zero-wovel
> also from short wovels.
>
> -Some time when the wovel "e" was tuned to "o" or sometimes "a", thus
> creating the qualitative ablut. This was effected by neighbouring
> consonants - some of wich were laryngeals.
>
> -Some time when consonants in certain postitions disappared, some of
> wich were laryngeals, others could be -n, -r or clusils in certain
> positions.
>
> -When the disapparing consonant was syllable-final, the preceeding
> wovel was lengthened, creating the lengthened grade of the quantitive
> ablaut.
>
> Does anyone have an opinion upon this issue.
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