Funny W

[Rory M Larson]

> > I'm not as familiar as you and Bob are with the total distribution of
these sets over Siouan.  Could you suggest some actual problems that would
challenge a nasally-released stop interpretation for *W and *R?  Or which
would favor an alternative interpretation?  (If I'm understanding aright,
you favor prenasal stops: *W = *mb, *R = *nd, while Bob favors
laryngeal-semivowel clusters: *W = *?w/*hw, *R = *?r/*hr.  Correct?)

> For me these could be written *mw and *nr respectively.  There are some
problems in that these would have to be intermediate clusters.  We don't
reconstruct *m, *n in Proto-Siouan.

Bob, is this what you meant when you said you had provisionally accepted *W
= *mb, *R = *nd a couple of weeks ago?

If we don't reconstruct *m, *n in Proto-Siouan, how about a reconstruction
of *W = *pw, *R = *tr ?  Would this slot be open?

Rory
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