Re: Re[2]: [tied] *kW- "?"

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From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] *kW- "?"


>
> Brian:
>> I think that you've misunderstood Glen: as I
>> understand it, he simply wishes to change *k^, *k,
>> *kW to *k, *q, *kW.
>
> Yes! It's very simple. Thanks Brian for undestanding.
> It's this simple change of phonetic values that
> automatically makes the IE phonological system
> markedness-compliant. It affects *nothing* concerning
> what we already know about the developments in the
> IE dialects. Everything is still the same... but
> better.

Actually it's not. Because we reconstruct *q instead of *k when all the
reflexes point to *k and because we reconstruct *k instead of *k' when all
the reflexes point to *k'. As I said, the uvular theory could be one of the
pre-IE explanation of why *k' is more frequent than *k, but certainly not
the only one.

Mate