Re: Witzel and Sautsutras (was: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of

They exist in the Armenian dialect of Sivas and probably in the
Mycenean sequence written as <pu2>

2012/10/20, Tavi <oalexandre@...>:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
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>> Keep in mind that in English, shiv means "knife." But if he just read
> Wikipedia to start with, follow its sources, he might arrive at a
> linguistic understanding of the history of languages. Knowing a language
> as a native speaker doe not give one any special insight into its
> origins.
>> Among items that I offered, Shiv doesn't tell why retroflexed
> consonant sets do not show up in IE languages that are not from the
> subcontinent.
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> I'd also add voiced aspirated stops to the pack. AFAIK, they didn't
> exist outside of Indic, in despite of IE-ists reconstructing them for
> PIE since 19th Neogrammarians.
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