Re: Ural-Altaic. A fly

Peter T. Daniels:

> Joachim Pense wrote:
>>
>> Peter T. Daniels:
>>
>> >
>> > A grammatical morpheme is a morpheme that has no semantic content of
>> > its own -- in English the complete list of bound grammatical morphemes
>> > is:
>> > {s} plural, {s} possessive, {s} 3sg., {ing} pres.part., {ed} past, {en}
>> > past part., {er} comparative, {est} superlative. The free grammatical
>> > morphemes include conjunctions and prepositions (though some of them
>> > have specific semantics as well).
>> >
>>
>> Please kindly confirm to me, in order to clarify my understanding:
>>
>> You state that e.g., plural, past, comparative, and superlative are
>> semantical contents, but they are not properties of the morphemes
>> themselves - the morpheme "s" itself has no meaning unless it occurs in
>> the context of a preceding noun or verb.
>
> The morphemes {s} are _bound morphemes_ -- they _cannot occur_ without
> the context of a preceding noun or verb, so the question is meaningless.

Then you should explain what your "a morpheme that has no semantic content
of its own" should mean for bound grammatical morphemes.

Joachim
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