Re: [tied] Infixal /o/

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

>
> I was trying to address your loose end #1, which was explicitly

not about

> function but about phonology. I took the question to be: "is there
> another, functionally different, case of a consonant which

vocalizes to

> /o/?". And the answer is yes, the oblique dual marker. We know

it's a

> consonant, because the thematic GL ending is -ayo:s in Sanskrit,

with

> closed-syllable short /a/, and we know it vocalizes to /o/. So

what's

> there not to be approved?

Sorry I did not understand your point. Incidentally I still do not
see an "oblique dual marker" vocalize to /o/. I rather guess at a
neuter dual marker generalized in its thematic shape, i.e. *-o-y-H1-
+ endings. That does not imply a dual marker /o/. But sure, that is
a point of view, not a fact.

Jens