[tied] Re: kentum/satem built-in already in PIE?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-08-07 23:56, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > And we know that if we find root-final -s where it's expected,
> > it's because the 'suffix' is -o-/-e-, and if we find -s^ where
> > we would expect -s it's because the suffix was -yo-/-ye-, and
> > in no case is either the result of regularizing a paradigm
> > with alternating -s^ and -s ?
>
> _If_ forms with and without *-j- appear in the same paradigm
> (as in the *pros^oN : *prositI type), *s^ and *s alternate as
> expected, without any sort of levelling. There is no independent
> evidence of the *K^ series being treated differently before
> front vowels in Proto-Slavic. *k^ > *s in all environments
> except before *j, where it gets palatalised in the same way as
> inherited *s, yielding *s^.

And except in RUKI environments (*pis-), where it yields *s^
(*pis^-), as it should, but not *x (**pix-) as it should
before *o. One solution to that is leveling. That fact that
another inflection type did not level can hardly be conclusive
proof that no leveling took place in the language.


Torsten