出版社：Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic
摘要：The combintion IV+I was seldom, that is, e could stand after guttural vowels, but not before them. When we speak about the vowel harmony in old Japanese, we must keep in mind the exclusiveness of ö(o2) on the one hand and the incomplete neutrality of e(e2) on the other. The latter explains why the vowel e of the first syllable of the second component of a compositum had the tendency to be transformed into a. By this transformation(e>a) two components could, through the medium of vowel harmony, become a real compositum. The labial-attraction could also be observed to some extent. This may be recognized by the fact that, both a and ö could stand after ö, but after o stood d in many cases.
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