Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

From: aquila_grande
Message: 18112
Date: 2003-01-26

I know non laryngeal coloring is not ignored, what i critisize is the
following:

When non-laryngeal coloring is treated, laryngeal coloring is
forgotten.

When laryngeal coloring is treated, non-laryngeal coloring is
forgotten.

Coloring of wovel by consonants as a general phenomenon is forgotten


The effect of this is a picture of the development of IE that is very
difficult to understand.


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski


<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <aquila_grande@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural
>
>
> > What is wrong is to treat the laryngeals and their influence as a
separate phenomenon, without any connections with simular phenomenons
that regard other consonants.
>
> But it's a straw-man tactic to suggest that IEists ignore non-
laryngeal colouring. They don't, any many previous discussions on
this list have been devoted precisely to that phenomenon. You have
called it "my theory" or "my hypothesis", but if you were familiar
with the literature you'd find out that the idea is nothing new.
>
> Piotr