Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Thanx for explaining. No such law or traces in Gmc?

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:22:14 -0800 (PST), Rick
> McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> >So what you're saying has tremendous implications
> for
> >the history of Gmc and B/S --that laryngeals
> survived
> >the IE break-up
>
> We knew that already. Hirt's law, which affects
> only
> Balto-Slavic, causes retraction of the accent to a
> preceding
> syllable if it has a non-vocalized laryngeal in the
> syllable
> coda (but not, for instance, if it has a
> non-laryngeally
> caused long vowel). That shows that laryngeals
> survived
> until after the establishment of Proto-Balto-Slavic.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>
>

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