Re: CHAT: Glottalized consonants

Danny Wier wrote:
> The Neogrammarian system is a clear violation of linguistic universals, but
> of course Greenberg came after the Neogrammarians.  A voiced stop implies a
> voiceless counterpart, so there would have to either be a four-way
> distinction as in Sanskrit and daughter languages (t-th-d-dh), or the
> three-way with ejective of Armenian (t-t'-d).
Well, to be fair, there was originally a reconstructed fourway contrast
between t-th-d-dh, but th was later abandoned.  It's been argued that
the voiced aspirate is a holdover from the day when Sanskrit had an
undue influence on reconstructed PIE.

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