[tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

From: Rob
Message: 22450
Date: 2003-06-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
> Rob:
> >Any monovocalic system will likely have /a/ as its vowel, [...]
>
> If we want to use "likely" in this sentence we have to account for
> the fact that there is no known monovocalic system ever recorded
> on the face of the planet. This makes what you say very UNlikely.
>
> If I were you, I'd keep to reality and reconstruct at least two
vowels.
>
>
> - gLeN
>

I believe that in the very next sentence I stated that earliest PIE
was *not* monovocalic and explained why.

- Rob