Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Isn't there another type of vowel harmony? Don't
Uralic and Altaic have different types of vowel
harmony?

--- etherman23 <etherman23@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > In PPPIE the plain voiceless stops developed
> aspiration in the
> > vicinity of back vowels, and these later developed
> into voiced
> > aspirates.
> > =========
> > Weird
>
> And yet it appears to be the case and explains the
> PIE root constraints.
>
> > ==========
> > Since there was front~back vowel harmony you never
> see any
> > PIE roots that mix plain voiceless stops with
> voiced aspirates (except
> > in cases with s+voiceless stop and voiced
> aspirate). I hope to post
> > something more detailed on the Nostratic group (my
> recent posts on
> > Indo-Uralic can be ignored since I've redone the
> theory in light of
> > more data).
> > ============
> > What is the front back vowel harmony ?
> > The twin sister of the Ablaut joker ?
> >
> > Arnaud
> > =====================
>
> Vowel harmony means that vowels in a word are either
> all front vowels
> or all back vowels. I don't see any connection with
> ablaut, at least
> not PIE ablaut.
>
>
>
>

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