From: stlatos
Message: 70542
Date: 2012-12-09
>You can read Sihler if you want more. I've said enough.
> That PIE */bh/ had a bilabial feature is no idiocy, so if You mean
> by /v/ anything else than a bilabial - for instance labiodental [v] as
> You write (at variance with the use in Indo-European studies) - please
> give us the evidence. Same holds for Your formulation "/v/ > /f/",
> which anyway even with bilabial fricative is a matter of contention,
> the other possibiliry being */bh/ > */ph/ > voicelesse bilabial
> fricative > /f/. This outcome is the evidence in Oscan-Umbrian. If You
> read every Oscan and Umbrian <f> as [v], please give us some evidence
>