Re: [tied] Re: Some thoughts...

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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?

All right, I've tried to follow all the suggestions
I've gotten. This is a new and difficult format for
me, but I've tried expressing most of my rules and
examples here. I've given my reasons for all the new
sounds I have in my model and showed their
correspondence in other languages as part of my
evidence (such as PIE f from th, corresponding to
Finnish -t and s elsewhere). I don't know if there's
anything else anyone here wants to see. If other
language families can't be discussed, if there's
nothing else you want to see of my theory, just tell
me.


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