Re: dhuga:ter

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55511
Date: 2008-03-19

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

>The proposed 'hardening' seems to occur after PIE 'unity'.
>
>Would you agree with that, Miguel?

I'm not positive whether there are any cases in, say,
Anatolian. It is in any case late-PIE or post-PIE.

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We can also interpret that occasional "change"
H > k/g not as a change
but as a signal that laryngeals are disappearing for good
and these phonemes are being reassigned to
another phoneme more handable to speakers.

It's one of the processes that came along
with the general "discarding" of the laryngeals.

Arnaud

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