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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:46:32 +0000, elmeras2000 <jer@...> wrote:
>
> >On the basis of these two Greek examples with /h-/ and evidence

for

> >lengthening the Greek dichotomy /h-/ : /z-/ is projected back

into

> >PIE as *Hy- : *y- respectively by the "Vienna school".
>
> But *y- gives h- in the relative pronoun <hos> etc < *yos, which

is highly

> unlikely to be *h1yos, if we apply the rule of tumb that

pronominal stems

> only contain a single consonant.

I think you are right (I was criticising the Vienna doctrine, not
advocating it). It has become customary in some quarters of IE
studies to reconstruct (or even quote) the relative pronoun
as "*Hyós", if not exactly "*H1yós". I think those who do so have
forgotten that we have three *different* laryngeals in IE.

Jens