The Sindhi implosives: archaism or innovation? (original) (raw)

Indogermanische Forschungen Zeitschrift Fuer Indogermanistik Und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 2009

Abstract

The belief that the Sindhi implosives represent a direct inheritance of the voiced preglottalized mediae, reliably reconstructed on other grounds for the greater part of PIE, is shown to be inconsistent with the presence in Sindhi of exceptions to Lubotsky's law of laryngeal loss before voiced preglottalized mediae in Indo-Iranian irrespective of whether Sindhi is regarded as being generally derivable from Vedic or as having pursued a substantially independent development. Arguments for the Vedic parentage of Sindhi are presented (in n. 46 and the Appendix), as well as an argument based on Lubotsky's 1988 theory of the origin of the PIE accent that PIE preglottalized mediae originated in nonglottalized stops and therefore offer no evidence for the quasi-traditional 'glottalic theory'. Arguments demolishing alleged counterexamples to an unrestricted form of Fortunatov's law relating to Indo-Aryan retroflex stops are also presented with other novel conclusions regarding the history of liquids in Indo-Iranian.

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