Re: USAGE: WOMYN (was: RE: [CONLANG] Optimum numberofsymbols,though mostly talking about french now
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 27, 2002, 20:03 |
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And Rosta wrote:
> If I read you correctly, you're reiterating my points here.
Then perhaps I misread you. I was under the impression that you were
analyzing woman as a prefix wo- added to the noun man, whereas I'm
saying that, if it's to be analyzed as a compound at all, it would be a
word wo with the *suffix* -man, because it acts more like that suffix
than the independent noun _man_, namely, pronounced /m@n/ as opposed to
/m&n/.
At any rate, I personally suspect there's no one true analysis. A word
like that may very well be considered as a compound by some speakers and
as a single morpheme by others.
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