From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 31139
Date: 2004-02-17
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From: "elmeras2000" <jer@...>
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Subject: [tied] Re: Eggs from birds and swift horses (was: the palatal sham)
> I am not sure we should identify the -s- of the s-stem (adjectival
abstract) *H2�wg-os with the -s- of the verbal root *H2wegs-, which
is an extended form of *H2ewg-; it depends of course on
what "extended form" means, which I suppose we don't know (though
K�mmel's guess at an inchoative -s- in LIV makes excellent sense).
It seems to be a phonotactic rule that extension by /s/ of a root of
the shape *CeRC yields a root with full grade *CReCs; Schindler
presented that in a review of Anttila's Schwebeablaut.
I'm not convinced (though I know the relevant examples). Far from being
prohibited, *h2augs- is quite amply attested in several branches --
including Greek, where the usual variants are <a�kso:> or <auks�no:>, while
<a�kso:> is qualified as "poetic" and doesn't seem to have good cognates
outside Greek. Of course it may be a lone reflex of an otherwise lost
archaic form, but its clearly defective distribution should at least give
rise to suspicion as regards its "established" status. It seems to me that
the distribution of vocalism between *h2aug(s)- and *wogs- is practically
complementary.
> Thus, from a root with expected - and established - full grade *H2wegs-,
we
experience no surprise when the causative is found to be *(H2)wogs-
�ye-ti, and I see no reason to enter a rule of metathesis concerning
the placing of the o-element.
Not a _rule_, in this case, since metathesis is by its very nature a
capricious phenomenon. The very fact that *wogs- is somewhat irregular
points to metathesis -- that, at least, was my idea.
Piotr