Re: Lost of intervocalic -d- in Albanian bi-syllabic words?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> > Piotr wrote:
> >The explanation is obvious: in this kind of verb stem the final
> >consonant was analogically retained or restored because it had
> >survived
> >in the basic conjugational forms with the zero ending (<hedh>).

> ( I will ignore 'an
> analogical retention' because sound 'very strange')

It's not so strange if the development were simply d > D > zero.

> Which such 'analogical retentions or restaurations' (that are pure
> supposition when we don't have any attested form or a closer
> parrallelism with another cognate) tomorrow we will not have any rule
> or we will have 'each word with its own rule'
>
> But to follow a little bit your 'analogy': seems that you have
> ignored another Fact regarding hedh: the Fact is that d passed first
> to dh in intervocalic positions (and next to h before to
> dissapeared) : this is the logical path to follow d>dh>h>zero...and
> the first Fact here that show you an intervocalic d>dh is the dh of
> hedh,hedhim etc too ...

What is the evidence that lenition did not simply occur after a vowel
rather than between vowels? Post-vocalic lenition is known, e.g.
Biblical Hebrew.

Are there any Albanian verbs with 'd' retained in the singular but
lost in the plural? Such verbs would support your argument, though I
fear there may be very few candidates for such behaviour.

Richard.