From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62613
Date: 2009-01-27
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> The "Leiden" school (Kortlandt, Beekes, Lubotsky and the younger
> ones) does not accept Eichner's Law. In part they may feel that the
> evidence is insufficient, in part it may be because of Balto-Slavic
> accentology, where Kortlandt assumes that only laryngeal length gives
> acute, whereas old long vowels give circumflex (this obviously works
> quite well for final syllables).
>
> This is then combined with a denial of a PIE phoneme /a/.
>
> So in order to explain the circumflex of e.g. Latv. sa:`ls 'salt',
> the Leiden school posits *se:h2ls, _with_ coloration of *e:h2 >
> *a:h2. But we then need an additional rule deleting a laryngeal after
> a long vowel or else we can't explain the circumflex reflected in
> Latv. sa:`ls (this rule is ad hoc, if I am not mistaken).