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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > Your alternation two (a/o/zero) is made up by you, not me. You
> > provide the examples.
>
> Aaagh!! That's the curse of these conferences. People forget

what we're

> talking about. It is me that is claiming there are no examples. I

said /a/

> is /a/ and therfore different from the ablaut vowel. Someone else

was

> suggesting that /a/ patterned like /e~o~zero/. And I've gone and

forgotten

> who ...
>

So now that's cleared up. But as can be seen from the examples Miguel
provided, /a/ does alternate /a ~ zero/. Which makes sense if it is
from an older stage of IE where /a ~ ä/ (or /a ~&/) hadn't yet
become /e ~ o/.

Torsten