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Re: THEORY: PIE, laryngeals, and schwa indogermanicus

From:Paul Bennett <paul.w.bennett@...>
Date:Sunday, April 22, 2007, 20:33
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:07:32 -0400, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> I chanced to come across Gábor Sándi's page on PIE phonology > (http://www.tundria.com/Linguistics/pie-phonology.shtml)
> I was > wondering what the resident PIists think about this.
My gut instinct says any system with seven laryngeals has got to be bunk -- I have a hard time seeing the need for four. However, he makes some fairly sane-sounding points, so I'm definitely going to check it out some more. His site seems a bit sparse, though. Paul -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/