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Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

From:Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
Date:Saturday, July 3, 1999, 14:42
Charles wrote:
> >It sounded to me like you were saying English "the" and "a" were >"bound". They are not, IIUC, and cannot be ... at least not yet.
Of course they're bound! You even defined what bound morphemes were=20 yourself: "A bound morpheme is a morpheme which cannot occur as a separate word apart from any other morpheme". Both 'a' and 'the'=20 cannot occur by themselves. -kristian- 8)