Re: [tied] Schleicher's Tale

26-07-03 01:14, Rob wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to buy
> that book. I have tried my own translation of Schleicher's Tale
> into "Modern PIE" (albeit at a stage after the disappearance of the
> laryngeals). Here it is: ...

The laryngeals were lost rather late in some of the branches (there is
clear evidence of post-split branch-specific developments in
Indo-Iranian, Greek, Balto-Slavic and Armenian, and of course
consonantal "laryngeals" were partly ratained in Anatolian). In other
words, "PIE after the disappearance of the laryngeals" is a
contradiction in terms, like, say, "Old English after the Great Vowel
Shift".

Piotr