From: tgpedersen
Message: 30768
Date: 2004-02-06
> Torsten:Bla-bla-bla. Examples?
> > Your alternation two (a/o/zero) is made up by you, not me. You
> > provide the examples.
>
> Well, if someone call tell me what the perfect of *mad- or *kap-
> is, that'd be great. We had a discussion a while back on this
> but nobody could provide more info. So I assumed that it was
> an open possibility that *a could alternate with *o. I can't
> imagine why a language would just alternate *e and not *a too.
> Since based on all other world languages a language MUST have a
> low vowel to balance out high ones, we know that IE DID have *a.
>
> So, why wouldn't *a alternate with *o in ablaut? In English we
> have verbs that ablaut too like bear/bore and wear/wore but also
> sit/sat and see/saw. We see many vowels participating in ablaut,
> not just one.
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