Re: German with Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja?

* John Vertical said on 2008-08-01 10:03:43 +0200
> > Henrik Th. said:
> > Such an ending would not be used to write phonetically (e.g. names),
> > but only for inflectional endings that are -e.  By this, I'd
> > probably be able to cut down the required endings for German to
> > about 10 or so: the vowel would be -e- /@/ anyway (which is dropped
> > frequently when the stem permits it) and then there are only a
> > handful of consonants used in endings: -e, -(e)t, -(e)n, -(e)r,
> > -(e)m, -(e)s.  They are then used for a vast number of different
> > things, of course.
>
> Those are called "morphones", right? (The name seems to be something
> of a phoneme : phone :: morpheme : X construction, tho the analogy is
> a little off considering it's a superset, not an element. But still
> less abstract...)
I think you mean "morph". phoneme - phone - allophone vs. morpheme -
morph - allomorph.


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