Re: [tied] Re: substratum

25-06-03 20:56, alex wrote:

> it seems I missed an "intervocalic" here. Thus " there won't be no
> intervocalic "dh" in Albanian".

Intervocalic <dh>'s in Albanian are either analogically restored before
a suffix (as in my examples) or of late origin (when a suffix was added
after an originally final consonant).

>>> The change stopped prior the Romans reached
>>> Balkans. Something against this statment?
>>
>> What change?
>
> /*g'/ > /dh/ or /*g'h/ > /dh/ or /d/+front vowel > /dh/

At the time of the Proto-Albanian/Romanian contacts the sound that had
developed out of *g^ and *g^H was an afficate (/dz/ or the like,
yielding modern <dh> /ð/), which alternated with /d/ in some
environments. As for d > dh before a front vowel, there's no such thing
in Albanian.

> I am not sure you don't understood. I thought linguistic has something
> to do with logic and not just with hypothessis.
> Concretly, what is the point you do not understand?

Hypotheses an logic are not mutually exclusive. You didn't make a valid
point, as far as I could see, and your last paragraph really made no
sense at all.

Piotr