Here's a complete list of the inflectional morphemes of English, ... boy's boys' big bigger biggest sing sings singing sang sung Please tell me you're kidding. Why? What did I miss? Have you ever read C. C. Fries's *American

Hi Verbal nouns have a verb as a base morpheme. If the attached derivational affixes (morphemes like -ness, pre, etc.) change their syntactic cathegory and the new lexeme is a noun, then you have a verbal noun. advance + -ment If the

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

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

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

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

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

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