Schedule 76. StuTS

Since the introduction of the laryngeal theory, PIE has been reconstructed with three series of stops. The (neo-)traditional reconstruction is the Dh-D-T system but this is unattested in the world's languages except as a short-lived transitional stage (e.g. as in Madurese). The rise of typology led people to reconsider the phonetic values of the three series; the two popular alternative theories today are the glottalic theory (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1973, Hopper 1973, Kortlandt 1978, Vennemann 1984) and the implosive theory (Kümmel 2012a / Weiss 2009). Both theories were partly motivated by the dissimilatory constraint targeting the *D series, suggesting it had a marked feature that could only occur once in a word, its absence in suffixes and endings, and the “b-gap”. However, these theories still have some problems, well summarized by Kümmel (2007: 299-310). This talk will explore a different system featuring pre-nasalized stops for the IE mediae, resulting in a system as it is found in Sinhalese or Dhivehi (D-ND-T). It will be argued that this reconstruction can account for the behaviour of the PIE mediae as well as all the other reconstructions can. Additionally, it tries to account for the TeNDh-exception of the TeDh root structure ban (Kümmel 2012b, De Vaan 1999) as a neutralization of PIE mediae before a nasal (Kümmel 2017).

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Day: 2024-11-21
Start time: 11:55
Duration: 00:30
Room: 00A23 CNMS
Track: Historical Linguistics
Language: en

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