By Morphemes, English grammar

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...

Hi, this is just a cut & paste job from various internet resources: 1 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 2 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 3 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 4 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (7 parts) 5 Pocket Fowler's Modern...