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Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 6, 1999, 14:30
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Yes. 'The partitive article' (du, de l', de la) is mandatory with things > you cannot count, and in everyday speech, French tends to skip all the schwas.
Indeed, one may go so far as to say that in French-based creoles, all countable nouns begin with /l/ and all mass nouns with /d/. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge / Politzer