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Re: Re : Re: Reflexive (was Re: Help on Verbs...)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, October 29, 1999, 13:13
"From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html" wrote:
> no, no. i was wrong with (en)clitics. first because clitics cannot be > inflected for definition.
Yes they can. Spanish "el/la/los/las" and French "le/la/les" are clitics. A clitic is merely a form which is phonologically attached to the following/preceding word, but is not a affix. (Well, slight simplification there) -- "It has been postulated that, given an infinite number of monkeys bashing away at an infinite number of keyboards, we could eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this to be incorrect." - Anonymous http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor