From: elmeras2000
Message: 32311
Date: 2004-04-25
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
[JER:]
> [...] The idea may be one of paradigmatic
> >levelling by which, say, *sr.H2w- gave araw-, while a sequence of
> >*-uH2- + vowel produced a hardened glide *-d- > -t-, the net
product
> >being then arawt-. But that is no stated in the book, on the
> >contrary, she says "the exact details escape our control" (93). I
> >believe that today she would be less reluctant to take the
evidence
> >at face value and say boldly that *sruH2-V- yields Arm. arawt-,
as
> >if via something like *s&r&wH-V- > *s&r&wd-V-.
>
> I still don't understand how *sruH2-V- can give *s&r&wH-V- >
> *s&r&wd-V-, instead of simply *sruH-V [> *srud-V?]. You can
> use the laryngeal either to explain the syllabic resonant
> (*srHw- > *s&r&w-), or to explain the -d-. You cannot use
> it twice.
Nobody understands it; that however does not exclude its being true.
Nobody understood erku right away. It strikes me now that we should
not even expect *sruH- before a vowel. I tried to figure out the
rules myself, and they certainly stipulate this only before a
consonant. And -d- apparently belongs before a vowel, so maybe it
really is the product of a levelling process. Anyway, it is not
solved yet.
Jens