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Re: USAGE: Circumfixes

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 17:27
Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> > >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>) > >
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) .