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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> I was talking only about "true" dipthongs, i.e. *ai and *au, not
> combinations with nasals and liquids.
The question arises, then, how many PIE roots containing such
diphthongs we know at all where the laryngeal isn't compulsary. Eg.,
the index to LIV2 contains no Baltic and Slavic reflexes of such roots.
If they don't reconstruct laryngeals sine necessitate, then such roots
must be very rare. And if they, not being laryngeal purists at all, are
guilty of overusing laryngeals, how does one tell the cases where a non-
initial laryngeal inside or on the flanks of the diphthong (*HaW, *aHw,
*awH) is a must from those where it can be avoided (provided that the
evidence of Balto-Slavic prosody is ignored)? What would that be -- the
(non)existance of (the refelexes of) vocalizations, anything else?
Sergei