Re: [SHOEBOX] Null Morphemes

At 17:32 22.7.2000 -0400, The Gray Wizard wrote:

>You seem to have conflated the rootless wordform problem and the null
>morpheme problem.
To my understanding they were related, since a rootless would "have to
have" a null root at some level.  Write it down to my IndoEuropean
heritage! ;-)

>The former was elegantly solved by Jeff's suggestion, i.e.
>
>\lx el-
>\a  el
>\u  el-
>\ps MOOD
>\ge assertive
That's essentially what I meant too, except that I would have:

\lx el-
\a  el
\u  el- ¤



/BP 8^)>
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