Re: Active, Was: Help with grammar terms

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

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>        Phonologically speaking, does it keep the so-called
>laryngeals? As far as I know, only Hittite kept them among the IE
>languages.
It seems to keep at least some of them: compare the words puhar (fire)
and -hamti (before) with Hittite pahhar and hanti, which demonstrate
that at least some laryngeals survive. Of course, so many other sounds
become "h" (gh, kw, gw, sw, h and to a small extent tw, dw and g) that
the situation may become confusing. At least for me. -hamti came about
long before I had any materials on Hittite or had even _heard_ of
laryngeal theory, so Tallarian laryngeals weren't "borrowed" from
anyone. :) [My IE training came from a professor who had _his_
learning apparently before this theory became accepted. It was
mentioned in passing, but not really commented on in any depth.]

Padraic.

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