Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

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From: <mkapovic@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:33 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] *kW- "?"


>
> >> Mate: There are quite a few rarities and oddities in IE,
> >> so another one is hardly surprising.
> >
> > Glenn: "So let's have an oddball IE party?" Is that what
> > you're saying? I don't think so. When you add the
> > screwy *k^-*k distribution with the absence of *b
>
> Heard of Lifu? No?
>
> > and the implausibility of a contrast of *t-d-dH
> > without **tH, you get a very baaaaad theory.

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Patrick:

I can show that the original reconstruction of IE was correct because:

1) there are Egyptian reflexes which differentiate between correspondences
with PIE *t and *th.

a) Egyptian has ' and D for PIE *dh/*th as opposed to *d and *t for PIE
*d/*t.

Thus, the stop series is properly reconstructed *d, *dh, *t, *th (in all
modes: labial, coronal, and dorsal); and the typological problems evaporate,

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