Re: Another Essentialist Explanation: PIE
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 3, 2002, 19:31 |
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En réponse à Joe Hill <joe@...>:
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> mmmm...dh isn't really theta, it's /d_h/, or an aspirated /d/.
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So what? In Ancient Greek theta was /t_h/ or aspirated t, and historically the
theta's of Ancient Greek come from the dh of PIE (it's one of the
characteristics of Ancient Greek: it kept all the aspirates of PIE, it just
devoiced them).
Christophe.
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