Jens:
>We have been arguing over the finer shades of IE inflectional endings,
>and when my opponent quoted "IE ablative *-od" with a short -o- and
>a voiced *-d I just had to say, hey, this is not the level we're discussing
>on.
More rhetorics and irrelevancies.
If *-d and *-t are interchangeable as you claim, then you can't object
to me writing *-d. Secondly, since we both agree that a thematic vowel
in *o suggests voicing, we should both agree that *-d is _voiced_, not
voiceless, in the ablative. If you do not agree, you undermine the basis
of your precious voiced *-s which you say must be voiced because of *o.
We should also be agreeing that the thematic *e in *-e-t(i) of the 3ps
shows that *-t is in fact _voiceless_ for the same reason!
So your denial of a contrast between *-t and *-d is shockingly chaotic.
You've contradicted yourself hundredfold. Congratulations.
And I don't want to petty about the vowel quantity because it is
observed to be short as Eva has even kindly pointed out. Even Miguel
agrees with *-od as evidenced by:
http://home.planet.nl/~mcv/PPIE/PPIE2.doc
Are all the List members wrong... or is it just you?
Occam is pointing to you.
- gLeN
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