Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Can you give me an e-xample bef-ore my thoughts go
aw-ry? I don't want to be misl-ed.

--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
> > > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> > >> Because the German glottal stop is predictable.
>
> > Word stems with initial vowel are automatically
> preceded by
> > a glottal stop: <aus> [?aUs] 'out', <beirren>
> [b@'?iR@...]
> > 'disconcert', <enteisen> [Ent'?aIz@...] 'de-ice,
> defrost'
> > (where <be-> and <ent-> are prefixes). It's fully
> > predictable synchronically; some analyses don't
> even count
> > it as a phoneme in standard German, for just that
> reason.
>
> The prediction depends on identifying morpheme or
> syllable boundaries.
> What happens when morpheme boundaries become
> obscured as words go out
> of use?
>
> Richard.
>
>

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