Re: CHAT: Glottalized consonants

> Date:         Fri, 14 May 1999 16:42:14 -0400
> From: Ed Heil <edheil@...>
> >             However, I have a hunch that Proto-Indo-European (or maybe
> >Pre-Indo-European), could've had ejectives -- I've read an alternative
> >rendering of t-t'-d instead of the traditional t-d-dh.
> Yes, this is called "glottaltheorie," I believe, and a huge book has been
> written about it by Gamkredlice and Ivanov, revising everything about PIE by
> adding those ejectives and re-visioning it in terms of active/stative
> languages.
There are other versions than the glottalic theory of Gamkrelidze and
Ivanov --- but (from what I see on the Indo-European list) there seems
to be wide agreement that the values of t-d-dh (assigned a hundred
years ago by the Neogrammarians) are not only unlikely as an actual
phonological system, they don't actually account very well for the
facts either. So something has to be put instead, but the question is
what.

(The active/stative thing, on the other hand, just seems to be roundly
ignored).

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)