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* The tense/aspect system is a bit confused. | * The tense/aspect system is a bit confused. | ||
* A lot of the sound changes seem wildly implausible. | * A lot of the sound changes seem wildly implausible. | ||
* In particular, while "sigmatization" seemed like a cool idea at the time, it now strikes me as confusing and generally a pain. | * In particular, while "[[#sigmatization|sigmatization]]" seemed like a cool idea at the time, it now strikes me as confusing and generally a pain. | ||
* I was not very careful about the ordering of the soundlaws, resulting in many contradictions. | * I was not very careful about the ordering of the soundlaws, resulting in many contradictions. | ||
* David Salo has suggested that it is unrealistic that the stops are never voiced under any conditions. (Perhaps I should make a rule that the unaspirated stops retain voicing when adjacent to a sonorant? In any case this is not the rule as things stand.) | * David Salo has suggested that it is unrealistic that the stops are never voiced under any conditions. (Perhaps I should make a rule that the unaspirated stops retain voicing when adjacent to a sonorant? In any case this is not the rule as things stand.) | ||
* It's one thing to change to postpositions, but having the Indo-European prepositions simply "reverse polarity" and go after the noun phrases they used to go before seems a bit unlikely. | |||
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** Alveolars and nasals are dropped before an /s/, usually without compensatory lengthening. Note, however, that when an s is removed [see '''Sigmatization''' below] these segments normally reappear. | ** Alveolars and nasals are dropped before an /s/, usually without compensatory lengthening. Note, however, that when an s is removed [see '''Sigmatization''' below] these segments normally reappear. | ||
* '''Sigmatization''': | * <span id="Sigmatization">'''Sigmatization''':</span> | ||
** An aspirate stop preceded by an /s/ deaspirates, and the /s/ drops with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel. (The transcription sometimes—albeit inconsistently—marks this by using a circumflex instead of a macron on the lengthened vowel. However, more often than not, circumflex is used ubiquitously) | ** An aspirate stop preceded by an /s/ deaspirates, and the /s/ drops with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel. (The transcription sometimes—albeit inconsistently—marks this by using a circumflex instead of a macron on the lengthened vowel. However, more often than not, circumflex is used ubiquitously) | ||
** While this process does occur across word boundaries, note that if a word begins with /s/ followed immediately by a stop, it is often lexicalized in the asigmatic form, and compensatory lengthening is unlikely to occur. Furthermore, the dropping of the s at the end of a word often allows elements which had dropped [i.e. alveolars and nasals] to reassert themselves. | ** While this process does occur across word boundaries, note that if a word begins with /s/ followed immediately by a stop, it is often lexicalized in the asigmatic form, and compensatory lengthening is unlikely to occur. Furthermore, the dropping of the s at the end of a word often allows elements which had dropped [i.e. alveolars and nasals] to reassert themselves. | ||