Re: [pieml] Labiovelars versus Palatals + Labiovelar Approximant

> > There is no phoneme /w/.
> > There is just a sound [w] that is a form of the vowel /u/
> > in pre-vocalic context.
>
> Note that this is precisely the position to which you were
> objecting in the case of PIE.

I'm not sure this is the same objection as Arnaud's, but here goes:

Is an alternation series PIE *-we-/-wo-/-u- (it does exist, unlike PIE
*-ye-/-yo-/-i- AFAIK) at all plausible from a phonological standpoint,
or in other words, what are the steps (without invoking analogy
leveling) that could lead to such a series ?


Torsten