Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

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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.

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Clear for you. Murky for all others.

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> The innovation of Central PIE
> was the use of e / o to express tenses.

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PIE did not have tenses it had aspects as in Slavic languages.

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> 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.
>
> Arnaud
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So *ga:u-, 'be happy' and *ge:u-, 'bend over', were indistinguishable?

I think you have been in the Attic too long.


Patrick

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