Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
> Oh, it can. Clitics themselves can never have free forms; by definition
> clitics must be bound.
>
> In modern French 'je' & 'me' are _always_ bound and clitic, 'moi' is not
> bound and is not a clitic.
Well, perhaps I should've said something like "variant".  Another
example is Spanish "un" and "uno", "un" is a clitic, while "uno" is a
free word, and the two are obviously dia- and synchronically connected,
IMO.

> In the western
> Romancelangs we _write_ them as separate words while in Romanian we append
> the article and write it as 'part of the preceding word'.  But in all they
> are clitics, cf.
I may be mistaken, but aren't there also some morphophonemic
alternations involved with Romanian's articles?  (Altho I guess the same
could be said of French, with le/l')?

> Proclitics on the other hand are always written in Europeanlangs either as
> separate 'words' or hyphenated, but never AFAIK fully prefixed.
French l'homme, there the article is written as a prefix.

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