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... accent), ... I think it makes it easier. Step one: the suffix is accented, because it is an accented suffix (-ó-) (nice explanation, huh?). Step two:...
... [Jens:] ... for ... must ... The word obsession could rather be used about the fierce opposition the very mention of the strong "lopsidedness" in the...
... On we go ... ... of the ... earlier ... The types *bhor-ó-s and *bhór-o-s show forms that can only have been created with accent on the suffix. The...
... Because it works? In Germanic morphology, "can" is a present- preterite, i.e. a past tense form with present meaning. The Old English inflection is: ...
... inform you ... beforehand ... the one ... example, ... uniform ... Resistance, ... the ... Vowel Shift. All of these rules need substantiation. Where are...
... not ... the ... Hypothetical example: what is the "true vowel" of a Semitic root? The question is meaningless since Semitic ablauts. Now why do we say that...
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 09:42:46 +0000, tgpedersen ... In most dialects, the word is <behe> (<bee>, <be>), and the reduction to -pe (< -bhe < -behe), besides -be,...
... The ... that ... only ... seems ... (etc.) ... made ... Exactly! Why didn't we say it so clearly much earlier? If Semitic really has regularized its...
... Galician, ... Portuguese ... Portuguese ... might ... Since I assume anyway that the hypothetical donor language had a Verner-like(?) alternation p/b...
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:24:51 +0000, tgpedersen ... The combining form of "foot" is orh-, which means that the simplex was *on(h)i (> o~(h)i > *oi~ > oin). The...
... Alright, wiseguy. Now explain "to lack", "to rack" and "to map". You know what I mean. English "a" in verbs is not purely dependent on morphology, and this...
... That doesn't answer the question of what the vocalism originally was because every language has vowels and we still have to figure them out. ... Yes, it...
The more we carry on with this debate by responding knee-jerkingly at every quote of ours, the more we develop multiple and ridiculously long posts. I will...
... do ... [...] ... opinion at ... That ... A 1-vowel system is unacceptable for the PIE we reconstruct. Was there a 1-vowel system once in the prehistory of...
Glen to Jens: The *o-grade is not an inflection in all cases. That would be like saying that because we have English "sing" and inflected "sang", we must think...
... I don't know how the vowel after "IE" appears to other folks. I get a blue underlined string "file:/e/" with double // instead of single. What is that ...
... But consider the stative verbs in Hebrew. (I assume they are Semitic-wide). They are marked by different vocalism in the second syllable, having -a- in ...
... I'll concede that. I'm just puzzled as to why Löpelmann singles out Galician and Portuguese. BTW the fact that pe-/be- is used as a prefix as well as a...
... The ... Semitic-wide). ... having -a- in ... mostly, but ... In which respect it behaves like Germanic, strangely. Is anything known of the provenance of...
... The ... that ... only ... seems ... And by figure out you mean determine their ancestor in the previous stage of the language. That's a recursive...
Come to think of it, the particle -yo, which everybody's looking for in connection with gen. -os-yo, may be right under my nose; it exists in Danish: jo, an...
... get a blue ... What is that ... Morphophoneme - a phonetic symbol between two pairs of slashes. I just see the five characters / / e / / when I read the...
... the ... But it should also have a motivation in the subjunctive; and the positing of two separate structures, one thematic "*bhér-e-ti", the other...
... working... What if the laryngeal itself could trigger the RUKI? For instance, *h2 (most likely uvular [X]) differed from *k ([q]) only by being ...
... I can't check it at the moment, but I'm guessing it's a causative, which would explain both the long vowel and the final ch - as drench from drink. Peter...
... No, you missed my point - there are many documented languages with clicks, say about 50, beloning to at least 8 different genetic families, so this is a...
... Hmm, I hope it serves the economy well that employers hire these morons for their coding projects but people with common sense are a dying breed (mostly...
... Exactly. Now when you can identify exactly _what_ stage of the language between English and IE that "a" was ONLY due to morphological processes and NEVER...
