Look up "morphology" on the Web. CJ

Anon2 here. Anon1 has failed to respond to my challenge to come up with an alternative analysis of Chinese that doesn't use words. Perhaps he/she is: 1. Too busy. 2. Couldn't be bothered to deal with people who obviously "don't get

what is the meaning of morphology...???and what is the example of structure and form of organisms....???

Anonymous wrote: "I'm Chinese, I've studied this, and I've decided that the polysyllabic approach is wrong. I know what I'm talking about and I'm right. You don't know what you're talking about and you're wrong". That was not my intent. I was

I apologise if Anon1 feels my comments were insulting. My post was prompted by the tone of his/her posts which basically said: "I'm Chinese, I've studied this, and I've decided that the polysyllabic approach is wrong. I know what I'm talking

I am not infatuated with the software that runs this site. Often I cannot post a message. I wrote a lengthy response to this, and then suddently everything disappeared. I think that this second writup will be shorter. Forbes wrote:

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a

Forbes wrote: Anonymous wrote: I think that the phonology of a language is intimately bound in grammatical distinctions, and that grammatical distinctions exert a major imfluence on how nature is perceived and manipulated in the mind.

Anonymous wrote: I think that the phonology of a language is intimately bound in grammatical distinctions, and that grammatical distinctions exert a major imfluence on how nature is perceived and manipulated in the mind. I am happy to

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