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Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, July 5, 1999, 10:02
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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