[tied] Re: Syncope

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

>
> At last! Proof of my sanity, if I ever should need it :)
> Everything I'm proposing for Pre-IE seems to exist
> elsewhere in eery detail.

You have simply made up your Pre-IE of changes that are all seen
somewhere, we knew that already. Still, that is *very* far from
constituting proof that the selection of "parallels" is adequate for
the history to be uncovered here.

> For example, a precedent for a-Epenthesis exists apparently
> in Modern Hebrew where an "e-epenthesis" occurs to
> repair a potentially yucky series of THREE CONSONANT
> PHONEMES (!!!) in some derivations.

You can find other languages that do different things with tri-
consonantal clusters; some reduce them by vowel insertion before,
between or after the elements, or by deletion of one of the
consonants, many make assimilations, and many others do nothing at
all. How did you decide that none of all that constitutes a parallel
to your pre-PIE?

Jens