Timeline for When did the vocalic allophones of the consonant phonemes in PIE become independent vowel phonemes?
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| Apr 30, 2021 at 16:40 | vote | accept | i's | ||
| Apr 30, 2021 at 6:44 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @TKR Sanskrit, Greek and Latin, primarily. As you say in your answer, it only really applies to the glides in the daughter languages, but especially in Sanskrit and Latin, it does apply. It’s a different system from PIE, not primarily ablaut-based, but the automatic change between interconsonantal vowel and intervocalic glide is still found, with some exceptions (like Latin allowing /CiV/ and /CuV/). | |
| Apr 30, 2021 at 1:18 | answer | added | TKR | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 30, 2021 at 0:26 | comment | added | TKR | @JanusBahsJacquet Which languages are you thinking of? The only one where I think that might be arguable is Sanskrit, but even there it would be much harder to make it work than in PIE (and the nasals would be excluded). | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 18:09 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | You could easily argue that several of the daughter languages also have single continuant archiphonemes, just like PIE. The same sort of alternations often apply in the daughter languages too, though a reduction in the productivity of many types of derivation and inflection means that they’re often less transparent than in reconstructed PIE itself. | |
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