Trebor Jung wrote:
>Chris B. wrote: "Ligatures are basically particles which glue together
>related words (nouns and adjectives, etc)."
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>I tho't the term 'ligature' was restricted to script, cf. æ (ae-ligature).
>Nice. Just learned something new today :) But, in any case, could French
>liaison be considered a ligature?
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I don't think ligature in this case is a general linguistics term, its
simply what they are called by people who work on Tagalog (and some of
the other Austronesian languages).