Re: A loose thought on present n-infix, ablaut

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > Some have proposed that PIE *bh, *b, p etc were actually *b *'b,

*p

> > etc, so that the voiced unaspirated stops were really
> > preglottalized. Pulleyblank (Historical and Prehistorical
> > Relationships of Chinese, in Wang(ed.) The Ancestry of the

Chinese

> > Language) proposes instead that they were nasal, thus: *n,W >

*gW,

> > *n, > *g, n,Y > *g´ etc, which would fit his idea that Chinese

and

> > IE are related in the case of Old Chinese *n,W`&G = PIE *gWow-

(and

> > mine that it's a loan into early PIE).
>
> > Nasal or pre-nasalised?

Pulleyblank proposes nasal as the source of voiced unaspirated, which
forces him to find new origins for PIE nasals. If one assumes
prenasalized instead (and prenasalised -> nasal in Old Chinese and
for *Mb in IE) one is rid of that problem.


Torsten