Re: [tied] Greek labiovelars

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> Oh, excellent; a couple of Sean's examples had me wondering
> about the possibility of /a/ > /o/ here, and now you've
> saved me the time that I was going to spend looking into it
> (and that I don't really have at the moment).
>
> > As can be seen, quite a lot has happened since Jackson
> > wrote his book.
>
> I can't say that I'm particularly surprised. In fact I was
> hoping for more up to date information, but I didn't expect
> to get such a nice summary of the current position; many
> thanks.
>
> [...]
>
> Brian
>

A good recent introduction this problem and many others is offered
in:

Kim McCone: Towards a Relative Chronology of Ancient and Medieval
Celtic Sound Change, Maynooth, 1996 (Maynooth Studies in Celtic
Linguistics I).

It is realy worth reading if you can get hold of it.

Anders