Re: [tied] -osyo 4 (was: Nominative Loss. A strengthened theory?)

>Once it had become
> phonologised in the individual IE lineages (through the generalisation of
> sandhi variants), the contrast between overlength and ordinary length was
> either abandoned or converted into a qualitative contrast. That kind of
> thing is not bizarre at all.

Don't we have an example of a sort of overlength in the long diphthongs?
Osthoff's law shortens most of them, but they survive in I-I (and maybe in
some Germanic words, depending how you analyse - e.g. OE cu, OHG chuo <
*gWo:ws).

Peter