Re: Laryngeals: arguments from typology?

From: gprosti
Message: 66071
Date: 2010-04-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:
>
> > However, a schwa seems just as plausible as a laryngeal, unless Anatolian
> shows otherwise.
>
> That idea presumably lies behind Pokorny's use of a schwa in so many of
> these words. But it doesn't explain all the effects we see - hiatus for
> example.
>
> Peter
>

Which hiatus are you referring to? (I'm sorry to be asking what may be a basic question.) Why is it necessary to assume that this hiatus was caused by the same phenomenon that causes the lengthening in <su:nara-> and the initial vowel of <ane:r>?