... From: george knysh [mailto:gknysh@...] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:49 AM To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [tied] *kuningaz *****GK: It...
... *****GK: Your idea of an "aberrant" dialect sounds promising. My take on the "impulse" which helped create it (rather than the impulse which triggered the ...
... ****GK: The only information I have is from Pritsak's "Origin of Rus'", p. 133 note 72: "...Herrmann explains why the name GUDA-S contains a -D- (instead ...
... syllable at the end. Can you expand and clarify please? I am puzzled by your wording. Do you mean Latin avoids placing light stressed syllables in the...
... into the stress foot .... and was no longer extrametrical. I don't dispute your statement here, but can you give any evidence that the final syllable "was...
... coda) contributes one mora of phonological weight (this is a language-specific option), CV: and CVC syllables each carry the same weight (two moras) ...The...
I notice that pretty much all of the PIE words are reconstructed with a k or k' instead of a s? Why is that? If the centum/satem divide is now considered to be...
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 04:26:24 -0000, "michael_donne" ... A development k > s is much more common than a development s > k, so *k(^) would be the preferred...
... I'd be very interested in hearing more about the other evidence -- after you've gotten more sleep! :-) ... In "Comparative IE Linguistics", page 31, he...
Hock has come out in support of the authenticity of Bangani. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/bangani.hock.html The finding of a Centum language in the...
... I think Common Celtic is used more often for the hypothetical language that developed out of Proto Indo European and showed typically Celtic traits (though...
Sorry for using technical jargon. I do not mean "feet" in the sense that the word has in theories of verse. In modern phonology a "foot" is a string of...
See my posting explaining the difference between "verse feet" and "phonological feet". In theories of stress that make use of foot-constructing algorhythms,...
Again, it's a question of technical definitions. In phonological theory, mora = unit of phonological weight. "Unit of time" is a tricky term to define in...
When did Celtic diverge from Italic? What are the theories concerning the introduction of Italic languages to ´Italy´? Is there any recent research on...
Hello members. What do you know about this tribe of North-Europe that arrived to India, Afghanistan, China, etcetera. and were known as the Aryans. Do you...
... In his recent linguistic analysis of Aryans in the Rigveda, Kuiper concludes that Sanskrit itself "had long been *an Indian language* when it made its...
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 21:06:08 -0000, "michael_donne" ... I had a birthday party to organize and attend to, so I couldn't reply earlier. And now that I do...
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 21:09:07 -0000, "michael_donne" ... I have no opinion on (pre-)Bangani (Bangani itself is mostly a satem, Neo-Indo-Aryan language: the...
... satem, ... Thanks for the clarification. Is there any idea where it may have come from? Is it related to most of the other modern Indian languages? ... ...
... forms. But if they were Dravidian then they couldn't be IE 'satem' could they? Wouldn't they have to be confined to Indo-Aryan to be considered Dravidian?...
In addition to Miguel's response, we should add: (a) Actually PIE is not thought to be either centum or satem. We reconstruct a pattern which is not shown in...
... This needs to be kept firmly in perspective. Hittite evidence mostly overlaps with the earliest Greek evidence, although there is some Hittite material...
... material is much> harder to date, for various reasons, but the best guesses seem to be that> both Avestan and Vedic overlap with the earliest Greek...
... IE 'satem' could > they? Wouldn't they have to be confined to Indo- Aryan to be > considered Dravidian? Why can't the evidence presented by Kuiper be...
Metrical phonology is a young discipline: new ideas keep coming and going, and fashions change just about every decade. Bruce Hayes's excellent and influential...
Wow. OK.. There is a lot of misinformation here. 1) Old Icelandic is most definitely comprehensible to speakers of Modern Icelandic. I have no trouble...
