Re: [tied] Re: Monovocalism: sequel

>From: enlil@...
>
>Exu:
> > Perhaps like the present tense marker *-i.
>
>Yes, phonetically it's a vowel but technically it's a consonant
>because in IE *-i is zerograded *-Vy and *y is a consonant. What
>one would have to look for is a true morpheme consisting only
>of *e or of *o. I've already said my peace on how thematic vowels
>don't have a unified function and therefore cannot be called a
>morpheme so that leaves... nothing.
>
>
>= gLeN

It may have been zero-graded later, but Anatolian evidence (Hittitle,
Luwian, &c) shows it to have been a vowel when the Anatolians broke off from
the earliest IE band.

I have not seen any evidence of any kind of sound law *-Vy -> -i when used
as a present-tense marker. Could you be so kind as to point me to the
relative evidence?

Thank you,
Exu

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