Re: Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE langua

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 08:23:15 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>>Japanese? You know that's not a valid comparison.
>
>How is it not?

There's no pronoun avoidance in PIE.

>>What counts is the facts. All apparent cases of *yeu- can be explained as
>>*yeuh1- [...] How to interpret the facts is another matter.
>
>Alright, but since *-g- is not a uvular in *yeug-, maybe you should
>listen to your own advice and accept facts!

Skt. yugám, Lith. jùngas, OCS igo: all clearly *g not *g^. Armenian luc
has been affected by the Armenian soundlaw uk/ug/ugh > uk^/ug^/ug^h

>>You mean *wéyes?
>
>Alright, then if *-es is "always" full grade (although that certainly
>isn't the case for the accusative plural *-ns), then it would seem
>that we must interpret the *-s in *yus as a fossilized nominative.
>I thought you wanted to derive *-s in *yus from the plural.

Sure. Like *més "we". The *-es in *wéy-es and *swéy-es is secondary.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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