Re: Isolating syntax, agglutinating grammar

On 4/8/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> Can I expect more than one basic meaning per
> most word+tone combinations?
I think yes -- which is why so many words in modern spoken Mandarin
are disyllabic. (Not sure whether they can be called bimorphemic,
though, though words such as "shenti" are analysable more easily than,
say, "zhizhu" or "hudie", the canonical bisyllabic-but-monomorphemic
word, at least in some claims.)

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>