... PS If one treats the underlying *h2oju in <oukí> etc. as an accusative of duration, the whole thing (*ne h2oju-kWid) should be interpreted as 'not for...
Haud ... Latin initial /h/ normally goes back to PIE gH or g'H. It can occasionally be an "adornment" as you put it (for example in the famous mosaic at...
... You'll find exceptions in French also (e.g. Latin hodie > French aujourd'hui > modern "au jour d'aujourd'hui"), and I'm sure in almost any other language...
... There is a remarkable instance in the Greek New Testament of oukH before a vowel. It has been separated, by an insertion, from the word it really goes...
... I think that an important difference between shortening and lenghtening is that single phonememes are dropped, whereas whole morphemes or even whole words...
... Yes. Incrementation is a morphological process while "erosion" is phonetic. What actually gets lost, however, is not so much individual segments as...
... I'm neither Jewish nor Christian, so please don't impute such motives to me. Everybody has got _a_ background, and you are no exception, but I don't...
... From: "Pavel A. da Mek" <a.da_mek0@...> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [tied] Negation ... ...
... From: G&P To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:38 AM Subject: RE: [tied] Negation ... You'll find exceptions in French also...
... from Grimm's Wörterbuch WUTESHEER, Wütesheer, Wütenheer, n., 'wilde jagd'. Die auffassung des ersten kompositionsgliedes hängt von der beurteilung des...
... Using the generalised Darwinian model (linguistic evolution as an emergent effect of imperfect replication + selection and other mechanisms of fixation)....
... Let's suppose that we treat words as replicators. Any word can have slightly different realisations ("alleles"), some of which replicate with more success...
... invariable ... Piotr pointed to a general tendency. You responded as if it were an unvarying rule. I said it is a mistake to think a strong tendency is a...
... Greek does have a fair number of unetymological cases of kH where k is expected. Perfect tenses are an example. There are others, too. But I can’t...
... Note that the text places druhtan- and wo:ðan- are treated as parallel concepts, as if they were both titles. ... Where Ariovistus (most likely) was...
... It makes quite a few non-trivial predictions. For example, that high-frequency words will be universally conserved (resistant to lexical replacement) but...
... From: G&P ... Piotr pointed to a general tendency. You responded as if it were an unvarying rule. I said it is a mistake to think a strong tendency is a ...
