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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:
> Therefore, I object to anyone who tries to reason that if IE can
> be analysed as underlyingly monovocalic (which may or may not be
> justified in itself) then that implies that pre-IE must have had
only
> one vowel.
No, that's a complete distortion of your own conduct in message
32876: You expressly excluded the *possibility* of monovocalic
systems. In no uncertain terms you wrote: "one-vowel systems are
_NON-EXISTENT_. It's not even considerable."
I take the singular "it" to refer to "one-vowel systems" as a
phenomenon or to the acceptance of such. I also take the last word
to mean "open for consideration". I may be wrong, that meaning
of 'considerable' not being in my dictionaries. But I don't see what
else it could mean. It certainly cannot mean what you now style it
to say:
> No. This is absurd. It's illogical assumption. It does
> not imply such a thing.
I have never made such an assumption, I only refuse to exclude it
before the matter is looked into. While there is no particular
reason to assume that a prestage of PIE is just like PIE itself,
thus there is no a priori reason to exclude that that could be that
case in a given point.
> I see you doing just that, Jens, and it irks
> my sense of reasoning because there is a gap that is not being
filled.
I feel little guilt being thus irksome. And I leave it to others to
make out where the gap is.
Jens