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Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 6, 1999, 8:12
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Well, in oral, I can't see any difference between the English article and > the Basque one. The only one I can see is the fact that when phonological > changes happen, it's on the article in English, and on the stem before the > article in Basque. For the rest, they behave exactly the same. But since > I'm no native speaker, maybe I'm misleading.
I guess you are right.
> Don't you think "the" remains > a "separate word" only because it is written separately?
What a horrible thought!
> Don't forget that > many people confuse the linguistic reality with the written reality (it > took 2000 years for grammarians and linguists to stop making this mistake).
For me, text is as important as sound. Same for many others who can only read a language, such as Latin/Greek or maybe English. In literate societies, one should not under-emphasize spelling. I even visualize text when listening to speech ... uh, is that sick?