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On PIE. tectals. ## \. The problem 1.1. The growing certainty expressed in some circles in recent years that Luvian at least, of all the Indo-European languages, provided direct and incontrovertible evidence of three tectal series in Proto-Anatolian and PIE. 1 has lately suifered a setback due to the simultaneous discovery by Melchert (1993: 247) and, with more detailed arguments, Kimball (1994) that voiced tectals -specifically voiced palatalovelars 2 -are preserved in Luvian äs velars in non-palatalizing environments. The doctrine that in its voiced tectals Luvian behaves like a typical centum language while its voiceless tectals preserve PIE. tritectalism is deeply unsatisfying and suggests once again 3 that there is something fundamentally wrong with the tritectal reconstruction. The purpose of the remarks offered here is to contribute to the elucidation of this problem. 1.2. A virtually complete, phonologically sound, bitectal solution, based on facts rather than prejudices, is in fact available. It was presented by Kortlandt (1978; reaffirmed 1994: 93 f.) in a neglected, 4 perhaps because slightly mistitled, article which continued and extended ideas developed by Meillet over

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Publisher

Saur, K. G., Verlag. ein Imprint der Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

1998

Language

DE

ISBN

9783110243444

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)