Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
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>        They used to be real pronouns (for a long moment, "je" and=20
>"moi" could be switched) but I think they are not anymore. Why we=20
>write them seperately is just a matter of tradition, like in English=20
>"a" and "the" I think (doesn't "the" come from a demonstrative=20
>pronoun by the way?). Writing is very traditionalist I think, and=20
>often after one century after design or redesign, it doesn't follow=20
>the reality of a language anymore.
Yeah... that's right, the English definite article is a reflexes of=20
a demonstrative. I figured that would be the reason why English=20
articles are written seperately.

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>        It depends if your script is recent (they've just designed=20
>it) or if it is old. If it's recent, just follow the feeling of the=20
>speakers. If they see those determiners as bound, they will write=20
>them bound. If they don't see them as bound, they will write them=20
>separately. If the script is old, it will reflect the reality of the=20
>language when it was designed (or redesigned), or it will reflect=20
>the reality of the language the last time there was a major redesign=20
>of it. So try and know what was the language at that time, and if at=20
>that time, the determiners were unbound forms that became bound over=20
>times, just have them written separately.
Well, that may be true of writing systems that use spaces to separate=20
words, but unfortunately that is not the case with the Boreanesian=20
writing system. Space is only used between sentences.

With regards to a the age of the script, I was asking the question=20
because I'm (still) trying to develop a Romanized Transcription of=20
the language. So I guess in this case the Romanized script would be=20
considered 'recent' (even though it hasn't been fully developed yet),=20
meaning that I have to go with what the speakers 'feel' about the=20
determiners. Since I'm the only one who can claim any native speaker=20
tendencies, I have to say that I 'feel' that these determiners are=20
bound.

-kristian- 8)