Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

From: enlil@...
Message: 30348
Date: 2004-01-30

Peter to Miguel:
> My point was more that PIE /a/ seems to have a different function both
> from /i,u/ and from /e,o/.

A different function how? No, *a isn't a semivowel so I guess we can say
that it has a "different function" from *i and *u. However, are you
referring to ablaut processes? I wouldn't exclude *a from them. So I still
don't get it. What "different function"?


= gLeN