Re[2]: [tied] Laryngeal h4

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 61449
Date: 2008-11-07

At 2:06:04 PM on Thursday, November 6, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
>> <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

>>> This is "proof by absentia"
>>> Maybe we just lack a clear example of H + CW.

>> That's possible, but IMO not probable. It's not just that
>> H+CW is rare, but the otherwise rare velars are suddenly
>> much more common after laryngeals. Not only are they
>> rare, but they're restricted in their language
>> distribution. They always occur in Greek, yet never occur
>> in Hittite, Tocharian, Italic, or Celtic.

> What is "they" ?

Plain velars.

Brian