Re: [tied] i-verbs in Baltic and Slavic

On Uto, svibanj 23, 2006 10:32 pm, Piotr Gasiorowski reče:

> On 2006-05-23 16:14, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
>> Please tell me what the link is between Balto-Slavic, Albanian and the
>> extinct Balkan IE languages (Dacian, Thracian, Illyrian). I've seen
>> allusions to this. Is it just speculation or can it be backed up?
>
> Balto-Slavic and Albanian are both Satem languages, so _if_ the Satem
> development of the *k^ series is a homologous feature derived from a
> common ancestor,

This looks impossible, considering the fact that Balto-Slavic (and
Albanian)also show a depalatalization process (cf. Lith. akmuo~), which
proves that *k' has remained *k' for some time after the break-up of PIE.
*s´, *s^, *c^ etc. cannot depalatalize to *k.
Also, considering the closeness of Greek and IIr, as well as Balto-Slavic
and Germanic, the satem thing seems to be pretty irrelevant when
discussing dialectal groupings.

Mate