Re: [tied] Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 50063
Date: 2007-09-24


 
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There is no PIE "vowel" phoneme *u; it exists only as an avocalic allophone of *w.
 
Patrick Ryan
 
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PIE definitely had four vocalic phonemes :
/i/ /o/ /u/ and /a=e/.
You are confusing morphology and phonology.
This avocalic allophone of *w is morphology not phonology.
 
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four phonemes? Utterly wrong!
 
What in Heaven's name leads you to believe "/a=e/"? This is pure fantasy.
 
PR
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In the word kuH2on : -u- is a PIE vowel
treating as a vowel, in Greek and in the other languages.
 
It is a pity your are completely in the dark,
Get yourself a Handbook of Structuralism from the 50ies.
You may be a good comparatist
but as a linguist, you are not worth much.
 
This is the problem with letter-games :
it is not phonology : it is nothing but flapdoodle.
 
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I think you may be the one lacking in linguistic knowledge.
 
EVERY PIE root has the form *CV or *CVC.
 
 The permissible vowel  (*V)is only *e or *o.
 
Patrick Ryan
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