In Morphemes^x

Are all morphemes in Chinese free morphemes? I'm not a linguist, but I'd say they mostly are. A linguist may be able to find exceptions, perhaps, but... My English-Chinese dictionaries only contain free morphemes (perhaps not to confuse ESl speakers like me).

Well in my dictionary I can look up prefixes like pre- and suffixes like -ing and it explains their meaning, or at least their effect. Linguists call such forms as "bound morphemes" as they cannot exist on their own, unlike "free morphemes" like "bird" and "love". Perhaps the question I should...

I have got to the stage where I am not sure excatly what it is that we are argiung about, other than whether or not Chinese is monsyllabic. Perhaps you could explain again waht the basic points are that you wish to make. My basic point is that Chinese is monosyllabic, and that contentions that...

I have got to the stage where I am not sure exactly what it is that we are arguing about, other than whether or not Chinese is monosyllabic. Perhaps you could explain again what the basic points are that you wish to make. On whether Chinese is monosyllabic I do of course have to rely on what I...

Again I had a long response and this software suddently erased it all. There must be something about how to use this site that I do not understand. Forbes wrote:All the books I read years ago insisted that Chinese was monosyllabic. It is only comparatively recently that I have encountered...

Have you encountered no sites that you respect that consider Chinese to be monosyllabic? Googled for Chinese and polysyllabic! I think that the idea that Chinese is polysyllabic is motivated by an attempt to impose English grammar on Chinese, thereby ignoring that which is Chinese. Do you think...

Forbes wrote:As I have said, I do not know Chinese and am therefore not in a position to take the argument much further forward. However, the following six websites insist that Modern Chinese is not monosyllabic:You certainly seem to have done your homework. Have you encountered no sites...

As I have said, I do not know Chinese and am therefore not in a position to take the argument much further forward. However, the following six websites insist that Modern Chinese is not...

Forbes wrote:I am at something of a disadvantage as I do not know Chinese, only what I have read about it. I always used to read that Chinese was monosyllabic, but apparently this is a misconception. The misconception here is in what is meant by the notion of it being monosyllabic. I...

Anonymous wrote: Although Chinese syllable structure is as you suggest, this is completely different from the importance of word structure. Words in Chinese are composed of a single syllable, whereas words in English and Spanish can be composed of a large number of syllables. This distinction is...