Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

From: glen gordon
Message: 40324
Date: 2005-09-22

Rob:
> I am inclined to take all words with apparently
> non-alternating /a/ to be loanwords borrowed after
> IE had (re-)phonemicized /a/.

Unnecessary hypothesis. There is nothing a priori
"foreign" about *a. You can't have a vowel system
without it!


= gLeN




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