Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 5, 1999, 3:42 |
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Charles wrote:
> It's pretty clear to anyone who learns the French/Spanish word for "a/an".
That's hardly "native intuition", and anyways, I've learned those, and I
still don't see "one" and "a/an" as being analogous IN ENGLISH. In
Spanish they are the same word "Un chico" can mean "a boy" or "one boy",
depending on context. It's clearly a case of Spanish using one word for
what is two (admittedly semantically and diachronically related) words
in English's.
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