Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

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From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
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Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Re: [tied] Re: Not "catching the wind "
, or, what ARE we discussing?


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> From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:36 PM
>> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Re: Not "catching the wind " ,
>> or, what ARE we discussing?
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>> > On 2008-04-15 12:54, fournet.arnaud wrote:
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>> >> It was *kuH1on?
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>> > The comparative evidence points to *k^won-/*k^un-V-/*k^wn.-C-; the rest
>> > is guesswork.
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>> Comparative evidence from PAA, eskimo-aleut, PU, ST shows *kuH1on? is not
>> guess-work.
>> But you are sealed off into your tower of orthodoxy.
>> Arnaud
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>> > In your case, it's guesswork plus violations of Ockham's
>> > principle by introducing (entirely ad hoc) "diacritic" segments whose
>> > only function is to account for the satem reflexes of *k^.
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>> My ockham's razor is one more step to get rid of useless correspondances.
>> I keep :
>> *g^ to be distinguished into *g and *k?
>> *k^ < *k
>> *gh
>> *gh^ (partly phonotactic g+H2)
>> *kw (the same as k+w)
>> *gw (idem)
>> *ghw (idem)
>> *gh^w (idem)
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>> *kh is *k+H1
>> *k^w is *k+H1+w
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>> You are on the inflationist side.
>> I use 30% less velar proto-phonemes than you.
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>> Arnaud
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> Patrick:
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> You are hopelessly confusing palatalization with aspiration which has not
> sound phonological basis.
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I'm saying there is no palatal *k^ nor non-palatal *k
just *k.
I use ^ for clarity's sake,
not a gimmick to indicate whatever palatal feature,
I might be read carefully...

Arnaud
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