... Out of curiosity: why do you find that excellent? ... Not yet. I'm afraid I boasted a bit; since Verner is inseparable from Grimm, I'd have to find a way...
... Poor mr. Kelkar is being sucked into the vortex of linguistics... Bangani has been discussed here several times, you'll find much more about it using the...
... acute, ... because ... I mean it's long because the 'i' is long here for some reason. What I wanted to say is that we really don't need to posit special...
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... Germanic is a kentum family but it shares so much with the satem ones. Grimm's law puts Germanic on top of satem languages or at least at par with them....
... What do you mean by 'on top of'? ... Those problems were with the affiliation of Germanic within the IE family tree. I think they were caused by...
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:33:24 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal ... Can anyone offer some insights or pointers to the relevant literature in this matter of the...
BlankRick. I don't think it's reasonable to state with certainty "The animal was named after the vegetable". I can concede the possibility that animals were...
... Did I say so? I could more easily imagine myself saying that PIE never existed without any dialects. That's what one expects of any natural language with...
... BTW I think it is instructive to imagine the Tower of Babel story as having actually happened; in the course of the tens or hundreds of years it would have...
... Some say the missing PIE b should be sought in the abundance of PIE w's. If voiced stops were prenasalized, that consonant which is Nb in the system would...
I like this idea of prenasalization. The m/w thing seems a nice touch, and your theory has some interesting parts ot it, but I do have a few questions about...
... From: tgpedersen<mailto:tgpedersen@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:30 AM ...
... I don't know. /b/'s have turned into /w/'s before. Perhaps the pre-voicing part of the pre-nasalization 'softened' the /b/. ... As Richard notes,...
It´s not my view but in some histories of the Spanish language, that statement has been made. I have nothing authoritative to say about it. I was asking about...
... The lip-rounding is there in /b/. Lenited /m/ has become [w] in Irish, so there is no problem there. One example well on the way to at least apparently...
Doesn´t colloquial English have nasalized stops-- ¨mgonna go¨ ... The lip-rounding is there in /b/. Lenited /m/ has become [w] in Irish, so there is no...
... From: Rick McCallister<mailto:gabaroo6958@...> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 6:51 PM ...
At 9:11:49 PM on Friday, February 2, 2007, Patrick Ryan ... [...] ... [...] ... What, precisely, bars a development /m/+/d/ > /Nd/? ... Which says nothing...
At 9:17:51 PM on Friday, February 2, 2007, Patrick Ryan ... However, Rick is correct in thinking that this sequence is sometimes *realized* as prenasalized...
... From: Brian M. Scott<mailto:BMScott@...> To: Patrick Ryan<mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 9:53 PM Subject: Re[2]:...
At 11:25:45 PM on Friday, February 2, 2007, Patrick Ryan ... Quite a few people: it's not terribly uncommon in rapid speech. I'm not aware of any particular...
... Of course, I forgot. Also in Scotch Gaelic, says my "Gaelic without Tears". Which reminds (I'll put some big quotes here, since I'm not completely...
Raposa seems to be superficially similar to lopas^a. Is there any Iranian equivalent of Indian lopas^a ? Something like *laupasa or *raupasa? The Alans was...
The semantics of the middle has always escaped me. He did it for himself vs. he did it? Why would a language find that distinction so important that it needed...
... A rather long quote, from Burrow 'The Sanskrit language' again: " §12. Treatment of r and l In Iranian IE r and l appear indiscriminately as r (there...
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