From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52902
Date: 2008-02-12
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: *a/*a: ablaut
> On 2008-02-12 22:21, fournet.arnaud wrote:
<snip>
> I'm not saying that PIE *o wasn't a phoneme. Of course it was, but in
> nearly all cases it was morphophonologically related to *e in the same
> root, e.g. *wo:kW-s vs. *wekWos (*-es-). "Derived" is not the same as
> "allophonic".
>
> > I am still waiting for a clear case of *CaC-vowel
> > constrasting with *CeC-vowel or *CoC-vowel.
>
> If the cases I've presented so far are not clear enough, explain why you
> think so.
>
> Piotr
***
My two-bits (which ain't worth much these days):
PIE <*o> that does not represent morphologically shortened <*o:> or
morphophonologically derived from <*e>, did not exist.
Patrick
***