Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule

From: elmeras2000
Message: 39554
Date: 2005-08-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Is 'stem-final' a phonological term?

Not directly. It's a morphological term, and the rule is
synchronically a morphophonological rule. Such rules generally reveal
that certain parts of the morphology earlier offered specific
phonological conditions that caused the changes underlying the rules
observed. That's the way internal reconstruction works.

Jens