Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]

From: glen gordon
Message: 39615
Date: 2005-08-12

Miguel:
> However, if there *is* a connection, then *-h3 is
> perhaps not completely unexpected.

It's *completely* unexpected for the simple fact
that labialized phonemes don't occur word-finally
in any known suffixes of IE. The 1ps thematic is
merely *-o: and the 1ps perfect is *-h2e. I've
seen mention of a theory that there was a stative
in *-oh2, but *-oh3 is absurd and disconnected
from everything we can observe in the IE verbal
system.


= gLeN




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