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

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:27:16 +0100 (MET), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
> <jer@...> wrote:
>
>
> >On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> >
> >> [...] according to EIEC, Alb. u ~ ju < *(u)swes, cf. Alb. u
> >> "oneself"
> >> < *swe),
> >
> >Albanian nom. ju may reflect IE *yus in the same manner as jo- reflects
> >*sa:. The reflex of initial *s- and *y- before vowels is <gj->, and the
> >lenited version of that is j-. A long *-u:- should of course yield -i-
> in
> >a monosyllable, but what are we to expect in a reduced word? I therefore
> >strongly believe that ju is *yu:s. The oblique u can be the enclitic
> *wos.
>
> And then again, it can be as DQ Adams says.

One should not recast PIE typology on the basis of ambiguous evidence.

Jens