Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

Charles wrote:
> Even in the sense of being "bound" by not occuring alone,
> "the" is just a form of "this/that", and "a/an" equal "one",
> which do stand alone. So in my dialect, they are liberated.
I disagree.  It's not uncommon for clitics to have "free" forms.  For
instance, in French, _je_ is a clitic, but has the free form _moi_.
Also, I don't see "this/that" as being equivalent to "the".  They are
bound.  The forms "the", "a", and "an" can NEVER occur outside the noun
phrase.  They are incontestably clitics.  "A/an" has a free form "one",
but "the" has no free form.

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