Re: Another Essentialist Explanation: PIE
| From: | Joe Hill <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 3, 2002, 19:42 |
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From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Another Essentialist Explanation: PIE
> En réponse à Joe Hill <joe@...>:
>
> >
> > 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).
>
Sorry...showing linguistic ignorance...I was thinking of Modern Greek, in
which I think it's /T/.
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