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

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:24:23 +0000, Glen Gordon <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>Miguel theorizes out of control:
>>It's there. The 2sg. *must* be **-tu > *-tW > *-sW > *-s. Otherwise it
>>would have been *-t.
>
>Oh dearie, aren't we just getting out of hand now. Sometimes your *tW
>becomes *s/*sw (in *-es),

Right.

>sometimes *y (in *yus), sometimes *w (in *wos),

No. The *y- is secondary. *tw- -> *w is the result of dissimilation in
*[t]uatu, as we have dissimilation in the verbal ending *-tua[tu] > *-te.

>and sometimes *tw (in *twe).

No. *twe < *tu-ma, there was no **tw- there.

The rule is simply:

*tw > *sW / #_ , _#
*tw > *t elsewhere.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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