Re: [tied] Infixal /o/

From: elmeras2000
Message: 30972
Date: 2004-02-11

--- 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