[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
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list