Re: USAGE: Circumfixes
From: | Joe <joe@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 17:27 |
Thomas R. Wier wrote:
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>Being written in a certain fashion has nothing at all to do with
>a morpheme's status as a clitic. Latin -que, like Greek -te, is
>a clitic that joins two noun phrases together, and because it has
>scope over phrases rather than words, it must be a morphosyntactic
>word. (Same goes for English <'s>)
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Indeed. To confirm this, the Sanskrit equivalent, 'ca' is usually
written seperately, in the latin script(whether it is written that way
in Devanágari or not depends on how the preceding word ends) .