On 04-10-07 08:27, Sean Whalen wrote:
> Trying to use your standard transcription would be difficult when I
> have to write so much.
No hurry; you don't have to lay it all out at once. If you begin by
presenting a lot of raw, highly condensed stuff in semi-formal notation
and with very few examples, you'll only put off potential discussants.
How about slowing down and presenting smaller chunks of your theory, but
adding a little commentary (in readable plain English) and some
illustrative examples? To begin with, you propose a pre-PIE phonemic
inventory but no justification for it. How did you arrive at your
system? What do you posit things like *f for -- just for the sake of
symmetry, or on some concrete evidence? And if it's the latter, _what_
is the evidence and what explanatory advantage does your reconstruction
offer us?
Piotr