Miguel:
>An opposition between circumflex and acute is attested independently in
>Greek, Balto-Slavic and Germanic
Alright. Then this hiatus thing occured immediately after
Anatolian was a distinct and seperate dialect _during_ the
breakup of Indo-European. In other words, it occured in
_some_ dialects as a postIE isogloss. So I'm actually correct.
Thus postIE *-oei as you had said in cases where the *o is
accented, otherwise postIE *-o:i as in ulkWo:i. However, in
_common_ IE, I'd be more inclined to write dative *-oi (accented
in *yug-oi but unaccented in *ulkWo-i) and a simple locative in
*-i.
At any rate, in both our scenarios, hiatus must be considered
very recent.
- gLeN
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