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Re: Greek vowels; was Re: an announcement...

From:Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 18:58
At 2:17 pm -0600 27/9/99, Ed Heil wrote:
>You're not likely to find much by Weiss, unless he's been publishing >like a devil lately -- he's fairly young, though IMHO brilliant. He's >an Indo-Europeanist specializing in Greek. If I'm representing him as >saying something absolutely ludicrous, then it's possible that my >memory (giving out already at age 29) is betraying me again.
Right. I don't say that Weiss is saying something ludicrous - as a young IEst specializing in Greek he may well have more recent info than I know about. That's why I'd be interested in knowing what it is.
> >Only thing I can remember that he published is a paper on the verb >ne:phein in _Historsche Sprachforschung_, and I remember that because >he was kind enough to give me a copy. :)
Ah - does he write in German? I had to read a lot lnguistic stuff in German at one time - but I never found it easy :=( Ray.