Re: Saussure laryngeal loss

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen <elme@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G.and.P@> wrote:
> >
> > I've come across a couple of references recently to "Saussure's

law

> of laryngeal loss". It refers to the loss of h1 between

consonants.

> However, one place seems to suggest the "law" applies to h1 after a
> resonant, while another seems to suggest it is only after an o-

grade.

> Does anyone have more details?
>
> Yes. I wrote a book about it: Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen, Studien zur
> Morphophonemik der indogermanischen Grundsprache, Innsbruck 1989.

The

> second half of that book explains what this is all about.
>
> There is a digest on cybalist in message # 30490 IIRC.
>
> Jens
>

Sorry, I didn't; it's message # 30940.

Jens