From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52347
Date: 2008-02-05
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: S mobile (Was : PS Emphatics)
> On 2008-02-05 10:36, Patrick Ryan wrote:
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> > Is it not going a bit too far to call *srew- indivisible when one of
> its common forms is *strew-?
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> The *t is inserted by regular sound changes in Germanic, Slavic (but not
> Common Baltic!) and Thracian. It isn't an original protosegment.
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> > Are you suggesting that you believe -*w means 'forward movement'?
> >
> > Your argument in a nutshell for this would be of interest.
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> The parallel treatment of verbs of movement like *dr-ah2-, *dr-em-,
> *dr-ew- and *gW-ah2-, *gW-em-, *gW-ew- (the last-mentioned root is my
> reconstruction, the preceding two are well-known) and the existence of
> sr-ew-, pl-ew-. I can send you an electronic copy of the IF article if
> you are interested. I don't think the original meaning of such
> "extensions" can be recovered with much accuracy through internal
> reconstruction, but some kind of directional affix is at least thinkable.
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> Piotr
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