On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:49:08 -0500, "Patrick Ryan"
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proto-language@...> wrote:
>You cannot really be serious in doubting *s- was a morpheme meaning
>something, can you?
That's not the only possibility. It's also possible that
s-mobile is a phonetic phenomenon. Sandhi has been
suggested, or a special phoneme (like the Kartvelian
"s-mobile"). I don't really see how the sandhi explanation
(e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_s-mobile)
can work, and things in PIE are not as clear-cut dialectally
as in Kartvelian (where *L gives Georgian /s/, Zan 0, and
Svan /l/), but as long as there is no convincing explanation
for s-mobile, all possibilities must be kept open.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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