Thematic nomina instrumenti in dental + liquid
Part of : Γλωσσολογία ; Vol.7-8, 1988, pages 7-11
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Indo-European formed nomina instrumenti(neuter) in*-tlo-,t-tro-,*-dhlo-,and*-dhro-; Latin shows these clearly. The last two resulted from the first two under conditions of Bartholomae's Law; the precise requirement for viability of these two is specified. Greek attests the last three, but r-dhlo- is very rare. While t-rlo- fails to appear where we might expect it, it is shown that this suffix was available at an early date: In the presence ofa preceding aspirate *-tlo- was preferred over *-dhlo-. This result, with an impoverishment of the lateral variants in Greek, emerged from preferential suffix selection and not from phonetic dissimilation, which would have run counter to Grassmann's Law and phonotactic output preference.
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