Re: Toki Pona survey
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 20:31 |
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Jean-Fran�ois Colson scripsit:
> Every Chinese character is a word by itself and words of several
> characters can be considered as (sometimes idiomatic) compounds. Right?
It would be more accurate to say that Chinese characters correspond to
morphemes and that most Chinese words have more than one morpheme.
There are some morphemes written with more than one character,
representing borrowings from other languages.
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