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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> Torsten,
>
>P: I'm strongly against such paper linguistics (quite apart from the
fact that I reject the glottalic solution except as a possible model
of pre-PIE phonology).
T: (Ah, Piotr resorts to epithets. I must be on to something).
P: If you claim that the effect of Verner's Law was the voicing of
stops, you immediately lose an important generalisation: VL applies
to *s as well. If we assume that the input was *f, *s, *รพ, *x, *xW,
we get an accentually conditioned rule of intersonorant fricative
voicing.
T: And if we assume that the input was *p, *s, *t, *k, *kW, we get an
accentually conditioned rule of fricative and occlusive voicing.
P: There is absolutely no need to complicate this simple rule.
T: Simplicity comes at a price.
P: You apparently would like to do so in order to leave an escape
gate for your "Tungri = Thuringi" idea, but that's a poor
justification from anyone else's point of view.
T: Please excuse my anti-social rule; but it works.
>
> Piotr
>
Torsten