Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@>
> wrote:
> >
> > As we know, in the course of the evolution of P.I.E.
> > into Proto-Indo-Iranian the palato-velar stops became
> > palatal or pre-palatal affricates, which subsequently
> > developed fricative allophones before dental stops, so:
> >
> > k^
> > g^
> > g^H
> > k^t
> > g^d
> > g^dH
> >
> > became
> >
> > c´
> > j´
> > j´H
> > c´t = [s´]t
> > j´d = [z´]d
> > j´dH = [z´]dH
> >
> > In another change /s/ and its allophone [z] develop
> > palatal or pre-palatal allophones after /r/, /w/, /k/,
> > or /y/, RUKI, with the resulting allophones merging
> > completely at some point with the fricative allophones
> > of the affricates, if not identical to them from the
> > start.
> >
> > Is it known, or is there any way of knowing, which of
> > the changes came first?
>
> I know there is a problem with the ordering of these two rules in
> IIr., but I can't remember what it was. However, I do remember I

think

> I solved it:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47124
> which has consequences fot the formulation of Grimm's law:
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47128
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47359
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48790
>
>
> Torsten

A good description is in:

"Historical Phonology of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants"
MASATO KOBAYASHI

Till recently it was a .pdf also on the net , but seems that was
deleted.

Marius