minimal pairs (was: PIE e/o Ablaut)

[Larry Trask]

Pat Ryan writes:

>> At 03:33 PM 3/28/00 +0100, Larry Trask wrote:

>  <snip>

>> And this is why I maintain /o/ and /e/ are distinct phonemes in PIE as
>> reconstructed.  There is no *rule* for predicting them, unless one uses the
>> very presence of /o/ to infer some conditioning factor (which is circular).

No; I didn't write this.  Somebody else did.  I have expressed no views
at all on the phonemes of PIE.

> Actually, sinceI know your position, I was curious as to whether Larry Trask
> believes IE *o is phonemic.

>  I hope he will answer the question soon.

Sorry, but I am not an IEist, and I have no view on this matter.

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk