[tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

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

>
> On 2007-01-29 02:37, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Well, it does make the strange PIE assibilation *-tt- -> *-tsts- ->
> > *-tt-/*st-/*-ss- part of something bigger and more natural.
>
> But it doesn't explain why it was only the coronals that were
> affricated before other stops. The allophonic rule in question
> (*t --> [c] before another *t and possibly before other stops as
> well, if the "thorny" metathesis was something like *tk > *ck > *kc)
> has no analogue for other places of articulation.

Because in the other places the 'damage' (spirantization) was made
good again by analogy. Only the coronals went *-Tt- -> *-st-, *-Dd- ->
*-zd-, *-Ddh- -> *-zdh- and this placed them out of reach of the
restoration rule, probably by their being confused with other *-st-
etc combinations.

> The affrication affected only the first *t in PIE, cf. Hitt. azte:ni
> 'you eat'. The further assimilation of *-ct- > *-cs- > *-ss- is a
> shared innovation of the western branches (Italic, Celtic,
> Germanic).

I know (however cf Latin comestus). That is handled by my rule 3c.


Torsten