Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

> I know Brian is not partial to many of your ideas, but really this
> one seems pretty brilliant to me.

Well, thank you. Adopting it requires a pretty thorough reformulation
of early PIE development of course.

> BTW thanks for informing me about Sturtevant's theory of o-stem
> nouns and adjectives; it all seems pretty sound to me and I would
> certainly believe it to be the actual explanation for their
> development.

It's in his book on Hittite, forgot the title.


I played with the idea that the original ppp morpheme was -dh-,
somehow related to the *dhe:- verb, and that PIE originally had an
endingless nom. like an accusative language should (onto which later a
nom. -s was slapped, after root lengthening, that would make
Szerémenyi lengthening much less awkward to formulate), and that
nom. -dh# > -t# which was generalized in some cases. I think that took
care of Bartholomae, but it's a long time ago.


Torsten