THEORY: the Glottalic hypothesis

Ray Brown <ray.brown@F...> wrote:
>What is the present state of play, so to speak, regarding the
>PIE 'voiced aspirated' plosives?
I am no Indo-Europeanist, but maybe the best place is to
look at it through the perspective of the challenging theory:

  Joseph S. Salmons. The Glottalic Theory. Journal of Indo-European
  Studies: Monograph Series. 10. McLean, Virginia: Institute for
  the Study of Man, 1993 (with full bibliography).

This is a reasonably recent, and fairly balanced look at the theory.
(BTW, I would say it is not accurate to say that most IEists believe
in this theory. FWIW I certainly haven't met a single IEist in real
life who believes in this theory, and I know quite a few as such
people go.)

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