Re: THEORY: Tonogenesis (?) from PIE (Was: The rebirth of m"/21aw as mql21aw)

Lars>>>>>>
> Date:         Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:41:33 +0000
> From: Paul Bennett <Paul.Bennett@...>
> Anybody like to exchange ideas as to how PIE (essentially 2 or 3
> syllables with stress?) could turn into a monosyllabic lang with
> tones?
Well, for inspiration you might look into how rural Norwegian came to
be the way it is; I think a lot of the words there are monosyllables,
and it has a tonal distinction.

But looking at your own ideas, you seem to want simple open syllables
with a more complex tone system... well, perhaps you can just
extrapolate Norwegian further along the lines of Chinese, then.
<<<<<<

Okeydokey.  Can you (or anyone) recommend a good source of further information
on these aspects of Norwegian?

I've posted briefly on the syllable structure I'm thinking of, it can be
sumarised as:

(m)c(l)(t)v(w)(n)

m = either prenasalisation of or simultaneous bilablial click with c, depending
on the nature c
c = consonant, either a voiced stop or click
l = (feels like) lateralisation (and slight affrication?) of c
t = a level or gliding tone, any single or pair of low, mid and high
v = vowel (default unrounded)
w = rounding of v
n = nasalisation of v






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