Why, do you know of any others? I thought so. Maybe I'm ignorant of the definition of "morpheme". Do sang and walked have an identical "past tense" morpheme? Of course! It's symbolized either {PAST} or {ed}, and among

Why, do you know of any others? I thought so. Maybe I'm ignorant of the definition of "morpheme". Do sang and walked have an identical "past tense" morpheme? Yes, "sang" and "walked" demonstrate

Please tell me you're kidding. Why, do you know of any others? I thought so. Maybe I'm ignorant of the definition of "morpheme". Do sang and walked have an identical "past tense" morpheme?

1. Oddly enough, he went home early. 2. Despite there not being many people at the party, we insisted on staying. I try to find all the heads in the two sentences. (Heads will roll.) 1. Let me think, it is phrases that have heads, is

Forbes wrote: A word about classifiers. I looked up "classifier" in my dictionary (a very good one) and it does not define it! I turned to dictionary.com and found the following definition: A word or morpheme used in some

A word about classifiers. I looked up "classifier" in my dictionary (a very good one) and it does not define it! I turned to dictionary.com and found the following definition: A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain

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

Hello Viognier First of all, please understand I am not a linguistic expert. So I have no intention to contest with you about this kind of professional subject. As you also know, there are many opinions about the concept of "tense" among

Hi paco. I would be pleased to explain to you what I wrote. It is entirely based on Mel'čuk (+Bybee et all 1994)'s theory, though. I find it rather complicated, so can I ask you some question about your view first? You wrote:

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