On 2009-06-04 20:10, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> If based on you:
> 1. 'secondary e-grades' exists or not?
Yes, but almost exclusively in vr.ddhied adjectives, i.e. in a
well-defined environment, not wherever it would be convenient o
postulate them from your point of view. Then, they are secondary
e-grades, not secondary o-grades.
> 2. if they exists, is the concept of 'secondary e-grade' identical, for
> you, with that one of 'Schwebeablaut'?
As originally conceived, schwebeablaut was supposed to have developed in
"two-vowel roots" ; *pele: > *ple: ~ *pel&-. In early IE studies it was
routinely assumed than all such roots had "state I" and "state II"
variants and that those variants could be used more or less at will. Now
we know that forms with the vowel in the "wrong" slot are secondary and
exceptional, not regular.
Piotr