Re: Estimated timeframe of albanian s->sh transformation

Hello,
I tried to redo my intervals based on this assumption "2
generations" --> 60 years
Where I have problems is that I don't imagine how on such short
scale :
c^ -> s could overlap with s->sh (what overlap really mean in
this case : 30 years?? Does this make sense?),
also how the loans in other languages are still possible in such
short intervals.

Piotr, could you post you estimations please ? Will be very
helpful.

Thanks in advance,
marius alexandru

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:
> I have been observing this thread with some scepticism. I think the
> question can only make sense if it means, "How long time passed
> between the first sign of a new fashion (sh) and the last sign of
> the old one (s) it came to replace?" Now for a small village that
> can probably be quick, if the villagers have been observing the
> speech of outsiders with increasing tolerance and suddenly act in
> unison in adopting it. But then it's not the story of a whole
speech
> community. If anyone knows of a well-documented case of an absolute
> innovation that saw its first light and immediately exploded to
> encompass an entire language within a generation or two it would be
> very interesting to hear about it.
>
> Jens