From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 57242
Date: 2008-04-13
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "fournet.arnaud" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: Re[2]: Horse Sense (was: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?)
> At 12:17:32 PM on Sunday, April 13, 2008, fournet.arnaud
> wrote:
>
> > From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
>
> [...]
>
> >> k^w, kw, and kW are clearly different. To hear the
> >> difference between kw and kW just listen to the words
> >> quick and awkward.
>
> > If it were so clearly different, I wonder why people like
> > Meillet, W. Lehmann, Beekes, Bomhard work with only two
> > series.
>
> Beekes has three. He thinks that the plain series may have
> developed from the others by allophonic variation but that
> it was already phonologized in PIE.
>
> Szemerényi (§4.7.4.4) has a footnote citing comparatively
> recent research establishing reflexes of three series in
> Anatolian, especially Luwian.
>
> Brian
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Beekes and Szemerényi are right. PIE *k(^)W is comparatively related to [x].
PIE *k simply maintains comparatively established [k] with the proviso that
some PIE *k has its origin in *k^(h)-.
Patrick
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