Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 6, 1999, 20:20 |
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"R. Nierse" wrote:
> There is another difference. In English, the article remains (because
> it is a separate word?), even if the noun is inflected (e.g. gets a
> genitive 's'). In Basque, the article -a is replaced by -ren in case
> of genitive.
Or perhaps because "the" is a prefix, while -'s is a suffix, while in
Basque both are affixes, or it's just a difference between Basque and
English.
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