Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Latin /a/ after labials, IE *mori

On 2009-06-05 00:09, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> I didn't read that article so I don't know Jens' arguments.
> But if you have invoked it, your are obliged to go with that
> argumentation till the end.
>
> Otherwise you have only asserted that:
> "h2 must be suffixal because you have understood this from an honorable
> person"

Or you may read the article yourself (it was published in the Copenhagen
Working Papers in Linguistics 2, 1992). In a nutshell, root-final *-h2
(or the collective suffix) and *-(e)h2 (with an underlying vowel) behave
differently in the word-final position.

Piotr