Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:16:22 -0000, "P&G" <petegray@...>
wrote:

>> >The attempts at explaining PIE /a/ through laryngeals only have
>> >failed.
>
>No. The attempt to explain all PIE /a/ has not yet succeeded - but many are
>explicable that way, and it is disingenuous of you to suggest otherwise.

Well, I genuinely feel that they have failed. It is simply not true
that /a/ is only found in "1. loanwords, 2. expressive words, 3. in
anlaut and 4. in some verbal endings", as Beekes states on p. 138 of
Comparative IE Linguistics.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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