Re: [tied] Re: Schleicher's Tale

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:35:21 +0100, P&G <petegray@...> wrote:

>>>Reconstructed "words" have a full vowel somewhere for the
>>>accent - so what traditionally appears as a syllabic laryngeal could be a
>>>consonant cluster, simplified after the break-up.
>
>>That would imply zero grade (e.g. *h1és-mi, *&1s-mén) _after_ the breakup,
>>which is a lot harder to swallow than 2 additional phonemes.
>
>Why? What's wrong with *&1s-mén before the breakup?

I don't understand what you mean. *&1 is a syllabic laryngeal. It was
there before the breakup of PIE.

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