Re: [tied] PIE laryngeals?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 27-07-03 03:24, harper110338 wrote:
>
> > If the posited laryngeals
> > were deleted separately in each IE language, that appears to me
> > to nullify the basis for reconstruction.
>
> Non seq. On the contrary, the different reflexes of the laryngeals

in

> the individual branches make their _comparative_ reconstruction

pretty

> secure.
>

Thank you for a detailed answer. I am new to this area, reading
various sources. I take it from the above that there are, in fact,
stages in IE languages with laryngeals intact, which initiate changes
before they are deleted.