Re: 'Vocalic Theory'

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56219
Date: 2008-03-29

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

>The fact that *o and *e: are not coloured by laryngeals is
>pretty well established. The non-colouring of *e: was
>already demonstrated by Eichner in 1973 on the basis of such
>Anatolian data as Hitt. mehur 'time' < *mé:h2-wr., hekur
>'summit' < *h2é:k^-wr, sehur 'urine' < *séh2-wr.

Obviously *<sé:h2-wr.>. *<séh2wr.> would have given +sahur.
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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Unless PIE had
H1.1 pharyngeal with no trace in Anatolian
and
H1.2 velar with -h- traces in Anatolian

sehur can be from seH1.2wr.

Another weak point of your theory,
is that it's highly dependent on
the number of laryngeals accepted.
And like it or not,
the number of accepted laryngeals is bound
to increase because macro-comparison pushes
in this direction.

Arnaud
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