Re: [tied] Re: a-Epenthesis: This time its personal

From: enlil@...
Message: 31362
Date: 2004-03-04

Erratum:
> Well, I have more to say on it because I've shuffled my
> Syncope down a few steps. Yes, Saussure is post-Syncope,

Ahhh!! No, I'm sorry. My brain glitched when I wrote this.
Sorry, Saussure (or Laryngeal deletion) is PRE-Syncope and
should be combined with a-Epenthesis as a single toolkit
of phonotactic rules designed to avoid terrible consonant
clusters and the encroaching, aforementioned "weak" vowels
(*i, *u, *l, *m, *n, *r) in the beginning of strong forms
of stems in eLIE.

Phew. Mea culpa.


= gLeN