[B-Greek] nouns and their final stem vowels

Richard Barcellos richardbarcellos at bellsouth.net
Fri Sep 8 23:37:38 EDT 2006


 > The notion of a morpheme is so problematic that most morphologists
> (such as myself) eschew it.

OK.
 
> But even if one accepts an analysis that includes morphemes, the stem
> vowel would not be considered a morpheme. To say that it indicates
> the second declension is to get things around the wrong way. The
> concept of "second declension" is just a means of grouping o-stem
> nouns.

So the "o" communicates nothing?

Rich B.
Owensboro, KY





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