2012/3/3, Tavi <
oalexandre@...>:
> Contrarily to the traditional model, I don't think there were "voiced
> aspirated" in PIE. From macro-comparative evidence, PIE series III
> should be PLAIN VOICED. Similar considerations can be applied to Grimm's
> Law, and so on. IMHO the stop system of Germanic actually reflects an
> older stage than the one found in most IE languages, much in the line of
> the glottalic theory.
>
> Given the Altaic cognates, this root must be very ancient, as well as
> the reduction of the initial labiovelar, which must predate the P-Altaic
> form.
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Like Villar and Ballester, don't You?
There are two antithetic methods in reconstructions:
1) majority
2) markedness
You evidently backproject what is majoritarian; the Neogrammarians
implicitly backprojected marked features.
In order to be coherent, You have to give glottalization and
reconstruct just three series: voiceless, voiced, and voiceless
aspirate.
In order to be coherent, I reconstruct four series: voiceless
aspirates (= traditional plain voiceless), preglottalized voiced (=
traditional plain voiced), breathy voiced = murmured aspirates (=
traditional voiced aspirates), glottalized voiceless (= traditionale
voiceless aspirates). Plain voiced and voiceless were former stages of
laryngeals