Re: [tied] Nominative: A hybrid view

From: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Message: 22198
Date: 2003-05-24

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
[Jens:]
> >If the adverb *(h1)ét, *(h1)éti contains the ablative marker, then
> >that marker was underlyingly voiceless.
>
> If (a BIG if) the *-t- is ablative, the oscillation of *et and
*eti would
> ensure that the stop is voiceless just as in the 3ps indicative and
> non-indicative.

Exactly. That was the only reason I did not like to see the morpheme
quoted as "*-od" in a context which I understood to be such that it
was the voicing or lack of the -d/t that mattered. I still may have
been reading things into your posting it was not meant to express.

Jens