Re: [tied] "Will_the_'real'_linguist_please_stand_up?"

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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] "Will_the_'real'_linguist_please_stand_up?"



> *****GK: This summation is much appreciated , Piotr.
> As a follow up: Is the "laryngeal" argument by
> Koivulehto designed to hypothesize the possibility of
> pre-satem IE borrowings by FU?****

Koivulehto himself considers the laryngeal reflexes to prove that the earliest loans came from PIE itself. This, however, is not a valid argument, since as I have pointed out the laryngeals had not been lost in pre-Satem times but survived into PIIr. (and PBSl., for that matter). I think it's much more significant that his loans show FU palatals for the *K^ series and no trace of rounding or whatever accompanying PIE labiovelars. The words are definitely Satem, if you ask me.

Piotr