From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42162
Date: 2005-11-19
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:28 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Indo-Iranian Vowel Collapse (was: IIr 2nd
Palatalisation)
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Actually Torsten, in one of his sweeping, ill-informed proposals has
suggested that all /a/'s occur in loans, since if the PIE ablaut
vowel was pre-PIE /a/ there would have been no legitimate ancestor
for PIE /a/.
For some reason I'm the Nordwestblok peoples' only champion in
dented armor. Sometimes you don't know how you'll miss someone until
they're gone.
Torsten
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Patrick:
You are the champion because you do such a good job at it that no one else
need bother.
However, I believe in the Nordwestblock insofar as I believe the Northern
people of Europe, at the very least, adopted IE rather than spoke it
originally. Germanisch is not IE.
And as IE spread over Central and Southern Europe, it is not possible that
traces of the earlier non-IE languages have not been fitfully retained.
Your armor is not dented but only unused.
Patrick
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