Saussure posits consonants no language attests

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1. Story
2. Ferdinand de Saussure's Mémoire on the primitive vowel system of the Indo-European languages argued that the reconstructed vowel alternations become regular only if one posits additional elements — coefficients sonantiques — in positions where no attested language showed anything. The proposal was made entirely on internal, systemic grounds and was, in effect, a falsifiable prediction about an unobservable language. The volume appeared in late 1878 carrying an 1879 imprint; this pack dates it 1879 and flags the discrepancy rather than resolving it, since the printing history could not be checked in this session.
3. Knowledge
4. Laryngeal theory
5. Proto-Indo-European
6. Ferdinand de Saussure
7. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
8. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
9. Connections
10. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
11. Laryngeal theory
12. Ferdinand de Saussure
13. Proto-Indo-European
14. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
15. Laryngeal theory
16. Hittite
17. Proto-Indo-European
18. Ferdinand de Saussure
19. Hittite
20. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
21. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
22. Laryngeal theory
23. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
24. Indo-European
25. The comparative method
26. Anatolia
27. The Pontic–Caspian steppe
28. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
29. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
30. Proto-Indo-European is spoken
31. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
32. Ancient DNA finds a mass movement from the steppe into Europe
33. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
34. Evidence
35. Supports the attribution to Saussure of the coefficients sonantiques — the abstract elements later identified as the Indo-European laryngeals. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. The 1878/1879 discrepancy between issue and imprint is stated as it is conventionally reported and was not checked against the volume.