From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58278
Date: 2008-05-02
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>>
>> > I don't think &h can be a phoneme of PIE
>> > and I don't think tl > k makes sense.
>>
>> So Trubetzkoy's notion that NE Caucasian *tL could
>> become /k/, /c/ or
>> /q/ is mistaken? For clusters, tl > kl > k makes
>> excellent sense.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
> In Spanish you had tVl > tl > kl > ky > x, h --vetulus
>> betlu > beklu > byekyu > byelyu > byez^o > byexo,
> byeho
> Italian remained at the vekkyo stage
> Portuguese stayed at the belyu stage
>
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This is different,
I was meaning tl as a phoneme,
here the sequence -t-l- is replaced by -k-l precisely because -t-l- is
impossible.
ve#tu#lu > vet#lu > ve#klu because **ve#tlu is impossible,
tl is not an acceptable cluster.
I understood Bomhard as assuming *tl was a possible unit of the system.
not the sequence of two units : t+l
Arnaud