Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> My position is that *Céi is simply a positional variant of *Céy

before consonants or finally.

>
> Your proposal necessitates the introduction of a new process for

data that can be explained without it.

On paper it would seem that your view (which is the standard view) is
correct. However, I'd like your view on the development of
reduplicated forms: CVC > CiCVC. Is it plausible that this would
really be CyCVC?