From: tgpedersen
Message: 52553
Date: 2008-02-09
>Would you include Heidelbergensis and Javanensis?
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>
> > What distinguishes PPIE from PIE is the introduction of the
> > Ablautvokal.
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> PIE didn't need to introduce ablautvokal
> It's clearly a proto-Sapiens phenomenon :
> with -o- for nouns and -a- for verbs.
> This clearly surfaces in Chinese.
> The innovation of Central PIEYou keep saying that. How come it came to be pronounced different, then?
> was the use of e / o to express tenses.
>
> It remains to be proved that this innovation
> can be documented in Anatolian and Italo-celtic.
>
> Arnaud
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> > PPIE had /a/, /e/, and /o/.
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> There is no phonological contrast
> between /a/ et /e/
> neither in PIE nor PAA.
>