On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:29:59 +0200, alex <
alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>How is in fact seen the change *k^> s ? Which are the intermediar steps?
Sanskrit Avestan Lithuanian Latvian Slavic Albanian Armenian
*k^ s' s s^ s s th s
*g^ j z z^ z z dh c
*g^h h z z^ z z dh j
(Sanskrit <s'> is "soft" /s^/, like Polish <s'> or Mandarin <x>; Sanskrit
<j> = /dz^/, Sanskrit <h> is a voiced /h"/; Albanian <th>, <dh> are
inderdental fricatives /T/, /D/; Armenian <s> = /ts/, <j> = /dz/).
The development was *k^ > /t^/ (palatal stop, IPA /c/) > /c^/ > /s^/ > /s/
in Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic, but rather *k^ > /t^/ > /c/ (affricate,
IPA /ts/) > /s/ ~ /T/ in Albanian and Armenian.
Compare the development of Latin /k/ before a front vowel, which gives /c^/
~ /s^/ in Eastern Romance (Italian, Romanian /c^/, Ital.dial. /s^/), but
/c/ > /s/ ~ /T/ in Western Romance (Old Castilian, Old French /c/;
Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, French /s/; Castilian /T/).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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