Re: Tones in PIE?

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From: connolly
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:14

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In article <1993Jan26.155215.9787@leland.Stanford.EDU>, alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson) writes:

[splendid stuff omitted]

>  After all, it wasn't until 1925 that Kurylowicz put forth
> convincing evidence that Hittite h and PIE shwa were connected.

Wasn't it 1927?  No matter; it was convincing.  What I've never understood
was why towards the end of his life he backed away from these early
findings almost totally, attributing scores of things to analogy that he
had once -- rightly, I think -- connected with laryngeals.

--Leo Connolly

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