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Studies of languages have shown that any given language will compensate for complexity in one area with simplicity in another and that if you compare any two languages that they have roughly the same number of complex and simple areas. Consider the following: Imagine a language with only...

A) I see less of the hats now. B) I see fewer hats now. The first sentence refers to your vision or view and your ability to see the hats better or worse. From one position you can see all the hats while from another position you can only see a few hats. So you see more or less of the hats...

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 languages in certain contexts, such as...

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 contexts, such as counting, that indicates the semantic...

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 Chinese is monosyllabic, and that contentions...

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 monosyllabic I do of course have to rely on what...

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...

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...

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 meant by the notion of it being...

Anonymous wrote: Although Chinese syllable structure is as you suggest, this is completely different from the importance of word structure. Words in Chinese are composed of a single syllable, whereas words in English and Spanish can be composed of a large number of syllables. This...