The number of English tenses depends on how one defines "tense". If one defines it as morphemes of verbs, English has only two tenses: past and present. paco

Thanks... I guess that's the way it should be. The problem with dis-illusion is that "disillusion" is a verb and not a noun. 'Illusion' is of course a noun, but there's no way a verb can be created by adding dis- to a noun... This is what has me

Hi, I study English at a Swedish university. I have some assignments to make, but they're difficult (for me, that is. You'll probably laugh). I stumpbled upon this board.. sorry for the intrusion. We're supposed to draw "trees" to the following

There are English lexifier creoles in which one can talk about one "tools." The "'s" is no longer an inflectional morpheme. Such is the case here, in my opinion. If one would like to assert the right to have "tense" mean whatever they

A word is made of three parts, prefix; root, stem, or base; and suffix. Not really. For example, the and banana. (1)precisely is pre + cise + ly (all three, prefix, root and suffix) (2)concise is con + cise (prefix and root)

I quote Trask: 'A root is the simplest form of a lexical morpheme, from which all other forms are built up. For example, the Latin verb meaning love has the root 'am-'; from this are formed the various stems , such as present 'ama-' and perfect

This inspires a more general question (and thus a change ... dictionaries claim that they are variants of the same word. "Thy" and "thigh". "Either" and "ether". Those are the canonical two pairs that you

Gary Williams wrote on 28 Jul 2004: It's like "ice tea" and "teenage". They ought to be ... to update has turned these past-participial adjectives into nominal adjectives. Hmmm...I understand "ice tea" (the -d

Say it once more and it's true ... if these ... you have identified a phonemic contrast unknown to linguistic science. I know... that's what worries me. Or in particular, what worries me is that it's a phonemic contrast that I'm

A.u.e: Does anyone else have these two different "-ire"s? Consciously or unconsciously? With the same distribution as mine or different? When I come to think about it, it appears that words in your first list are slightly shorter sounds.