Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

Richard, I cannot believe the pre-glottalization voiced stops.

I would accept a metathesis (VoicelessC+? -> VoicedC).

Could that work?


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH- too


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> It is without precedent for a preceding glottal stop to voice anything.

1. Preglottalisation is pretty close to implosiveness, and implosives
are voiced.

2. The modern Tai voiced stops are generally reconstructed as
deriveing from pre-glottalised stops. Pre-glottalisation is evidenced
by pre-glottalised reflexes in a very few languages and by
pre-glottalised stops and glottal stops having the same effect on tone
in a few dialects.

Richard.