Re: Laryngeal h4

On 2008-11-08 06:24, etherman23 wrote:

> Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> > *-h3kW- (the zero grade of *h3okW-) is frequent in compounds like
> > *proti-h3kW-o- or *h2anti-h3kW-o-, though at the end of a morpheme it
> > would violate both constraints I have proposed (no *h3 before stops, no
> > labiovelars after laryngeals).
>
> Could this be analogical restoration of the labial element?

No need to assume it. Most languages allow themselves more phonotactic
freedom at morphological seams or in derivationally transformed forms
than inside canonical morphemes.

Piotr