From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61438
Date: 2008-11-06
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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> For the sake of completeness: the other laryngeal before stops in LIV
> verb roots:
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I'm sorry to ruin your evening with some homework,
but it would be very nice to have the supposed meanings of the roots.
Maybe, you might use this for some other opportunity.
Anyway, thanks again.
Arnaud
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> (1) *h3 is extremely rare before stops
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Not really a surprise,
most H3 come from m? which assimilates into archphoneme N when followed by a
stop.
A.
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> (2) Laryngeals are extremely rare before labiovelars
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Maybe this means that these labio-velars have to be analysed as standing for
two positions in the root skeleton
so that it tends to prove PIE did not allow more than three consonants
(including one stop) in a row between two real vowels.
A.
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>
> The distibution of *h2 is strangely skewed. It's common before *k(^) and
> *g(^), but not before *g(^)H-. If *h2 was a dorsal fricative, this may
> be due to some sort of dissimilatory filter. Another strange thing is
> its absence before the least marked coronal stop, *t.
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I wrote that H2 was voiced or glottalized
H2-t is impossible, only H1-t is possible.
Not a big surprise.
A.
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> On the other hand,
> LIV has as many as 13 roots with final *-th2 (as against one with *-th1
> and none whatsoever with *-th3). Perhaps in some of them there was a
> metathesis of *-h2t- to *-th2- or "Olsen preaspiration" of *-h2t- >
> *-tH-. One would have to re-analyse the data carefully withy these
> possibilities in mind.
>
> Piotr
>
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