Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

At 18:18 02/07/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Ed Heil wrote:
>> the Creole word for
>> "water" is "dlo"!)
>
>>From "de l'eau"? (is that /d@'lo/?)
>
        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.

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