[tied] Re: Monovocalism: sequel

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, enlil@... wrote:

> > They patently adjectivise when on their own. But often they just
> > constitute the final part of a suffix ending in a vowel. They

also

> > appear in the pronouns where they apparently do little more than
> > constitute an inflectible stem.
>
> They adjectivize? So *bHer-e-ti is an adjective? Is the verb a

pronoun

> now?

No, it's an old noun, and the subjunctive stem is an old adjective
stem made from it. There are many typological parallels, I'm told.
The one I know is from Eskimo.

> > That is no valid criterion by any standard: Why can't a morpheme
> > have the structure *-e/o-,
>
> It's not the case in IE. Morphemes always have at least one

consonant.

>

How would one that doesn't look?

Jens