Muke Tever wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:04:11 +0300, Isaac Penzev wrote:
> > Why none? The opposition still may exist as /vowel/ :: /no vowel/.
Some
> > people think PIE worked this way.
>
> "None" because if the schwa vowel phone[me] is only being the
realization
> of /-/ (morpheme break), it is not, in a sense, actually being a
_vowel_
> phoneme, but more of a morphological process. Whether to consider it
a
> vowel or not depends on how phonemic vs morphophonemic you want to be,
I
> suppose. (Possibly not everyone is comfortable with a phoneme like
/-/.)
No, Muke. I meant opposition /V/ :: /Ø/ *inside* the morpheme - Ø here
means zero. Something like /-kVr-/ :: /-kr-/. And I dont feel easy with
morpheme break phoneme either ;)
-- Yitzik