Re: Is Basque IE?

From: richardwordingham
Message: 71367
Date: 2013-10-09

Doug Kilday had written:


Optional soundlaws are unacceptable unless you change your name to Seanfranco.


Or rather, weaken the case.  Unevenly progressing mergers and losses appear as optional sound laws, such as English vowel shortening before dentals, which results in a 3-way split of a single Early Modern English vowel in _flood_, _good_ and _mood_.

Richard.