On the PIE root-structure constraint prohibiting repeated consonants

This paper confronts and resolves the problem of apparent exceptions to the constraint prohibiting the co-occurrence of identical consonants in both syllable margins of the PIE root: schematically, †… Ci … E … Ci …, where † indicates the prohibition of the root structure following it, Ci = the ident...

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Main Authors: Paul S. Cohen, Benji Wald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2022-12-01
Series:Papers in Historical Phonology
Online Access:http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/8959