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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
language@...> wrote:
> Would you mind telling me and the list where the most uptodate
exposition of the 'laryngeal theory' is to be found?
I agree very much with Piotr when he recommends Lindeman's
Einführung. The general message of that book, and even more perhaps
of its subsequent revised editions in English under the title
Introduction to Laryngeal Theory of 1987 and 1998, however, is that
everything written by anybody else is wrong. That is often the
truth, but then not always for the reasons given, and often it is
not true. A more committing expose which manages to make choices and
give reasons for them is the relevant section of M.Mayrhofer:
Lautlehre (which is the second half of Indogermanische Grammatik,
Band I: Einleitung [W.Cowgill], Lautlehre [M.Mayrhofer], Heidelberg
1986), i.e. pp. 121-150.
It may be said that Lindeman assumes six laryngeals, while Mayrhofer
manages to explain much more with the classical three.
Jens