Dolgopolsky's new book

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

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Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk> wrote:
 
>The proposed cognate sets await the attention of specialists in the
>relevant languages.  Certainly some of the PIE comparanda cited are
>new to me, such as PIE *<bhel-> `marten' and *<kat-> `wickerwork,
>wattle-fence', but I'm no IEist, and I may just be ignorant.
 
*bhel- doesn't ring a bell, unless it's Russ. belka "squirrel".  *kat-
is OK, except of course for the /a/: Lat. catena, casa and several
others.
 
>Dolgopolsky reconstructs 50 consonant phonemes for PN; he doesn't
>provide a vowel system, but there appear to be seven distinct vowels
>present in his PA reconstructions.  Among the 50 consonants are 35
>obstruents, 14 resonants, and /h/, which you can classify to suit
>yourself.  There are five contrasting nasals and no fewer than eight
>contrasting coronal laterals, which strikes me as rather a lot of
>coronal laterals.
 
Is that *without* counting the lateral affricates/fricatives?
 
 
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam