Re: Ural-Altaic. A fly

Joachim Pense wrote:
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> 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.

You've never encountered the concepts "content word" and "function word"
before??

What is the meaning of "the"?
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