Re: [SPAM] [tied] Re: Latin /a/ after labials, IE *mori
From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 64035 Date: 2009-06-05
On 2009-06-05 01:01, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> One basic rule of ANY MODEL is TO KEEP IT MINIMAL:
> - TO HAVE ALL THE TIME, ONLY THE MINIMAL NUMBER OF NECESSARY RULES
Nonsense. Parsimony is just a methodological principle, not proof of
nonexistence. *morhi- is just as likely as *mori-. By the way, even if
Hitt. marmarra- is related, it remains undecisive: first, in a
reduplication, a laryngeal may drop out (cf. *kWe-kWl-o- from *kWelh1-);
secondly, the laryngeal could be *h1.