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

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:41:57 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>And BTW, if "I win", I have the Occam prize before me: the abolition
>of plain velars, which behave 'out of character' with the other
>velars in that they can't be swayed; the are not affected by front
>vowel contexts (which is what I think happened; *k' (actually a /k/)
>> *c^e-/*ko- and *kW (originally /q/?) > *ke-/kWo-). Why is that?

It isn't, that's why. The other velars can't be swayed either. This
so-called alternation *k' ~ *k and *k ~ *kW is entirely ficticious.


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