Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

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I do not believe my view is the "standard view".

The standard view asserts a short vowel inventory of <*e,*a,*o,*i,*u>.

I believe there was one short vowel, <*A>, which manifested itself as <*é>, <*o>, or <*ø>.

I do not believe <*i> and <*u> were vowels per se.

Standard view allows long vowels for the full inventory.

I believe there were only three long vowels: <*a:, *e:, *o:>.

As for reduplication, perhaps one of the other readers of the list would care to address your questions.

Patrick Ryan

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----- Original Message -----

From: etherman23

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 3:48 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@ ...>
wrote:
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> My position is that *Céi is simply a positional variant of *Céy
before consonants or finally.
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> 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?