Abstract
The aim of this article is to point out the differences in the functions of segments traditionally referred to as the ‘theme vowel’ in many morphological studies on Romance Languages (Rio Torto 1998, Villalva 2000, Mateus et al. 2003, Azevedo 2005). It is a general misconception to treat the segments, appearing between the root and the suffixes of nouns, adjectives and verbs, as having identical status in the morphological segmentation or as having the same functions. The traditional term ‘theme vowel’, used to designate them, already suggests that the three segments have parallel segmentational or functional status. For this reason, I am going to abandon this term, and will adopt a new term ‘intermediate vowel’ (IV), which purely refers to the position these vowels occupy.
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