Cross-linguistic Morpheme Analysis

[chester_100]

That looks pretty cool.

What about that famous word 'antidisestablishmentarianism'?That's diagrammable isn't it? A collection of prefixes and suffixes.

O.K. What do think of it?

[Trance Freak]

Thank you.
Well, as it seems, this translated version was made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It must have been proofread very carefully.
As I have mentioned, voilà may look strange to non-French speakers, because we don't normally expect a preposition to function that way. But it's perfectly acceptable. It's not wrong.
Maybe voici la question can work here.


-Telle est la question: tel reminds of such. If we accept that tel(le) can function as an indifinite pronoun, then the sentence may be: such is the question.

Good day.

Didn't say voilà was wrong, I was just talking about 'Être ou n'être pas.'
On ne peut pas dire 'n'être pas,' on dit simplement 'ne pas être,' tu vois?
Et pour voilà, tel(le) ou c'est, on s'interesse plus à la transcription littéraire plutôt qu'à la transcription exacte.

Merci.

[Frank Antonson]

All I have to say is that it is SO nice to have a mind like yours, Trance Freak, back in the forum.

[chester_100]

Didn't say voilà was wrong, I was just talking about 'Être ou n'être pas.'
On ne peut pas dire 'n'être pas,' on dit simplement 'ne pas être,' tu vois?
Et pour voilà, tel(le) ou c'est, on s'interesse plus à la transcription littéraire plutôt qu'à la transcription exacte.

Merci.

I see. Of course, my focus is on the exact reproduction of the SL structures as far as they don't violate TL rules.
Word order is usually distorted in literature. And as you implied, word choice is a stylistic matter that can change the literary value of a text. Maybe here we're authorized to view it as 'transcription littéraire'.

Bonne chance!

[Frank Antonson]

Trance Freak,

It is so nice to have you back!

Frank

[Frank Antonson]

Chester,

I sort of follow you. My experience and skill with Reed-Kellogg is of no use here since R-K deals with syntax, not morphology. Yet, I think a system of diagramming for morphology could be very useful. Is there any such system for Indo-European words?

I want to support your work, but I am not sure how to do it. If I understand this correctly, you are "going where no man has gone before" (to quote "Star Trek")

Frank

[birdeen's call]

Hi, can I join the discussion? I don't have much knowledge about morphemes, but it's an interesting topic to me.

I've just thought that morphemes seem to have some kind of their own syntax (I'm not sure about it though...), so maybe it could be possible to adapt some system of syntax analysis for this purpose? (I don't know any such system but I'd like to learn it.)

[Frank Antonson]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think of a morpheme as the smallest unit of meaning in a language. If this is so, morphemes SHOULD be able to be tagged and followed.

Does anyone know if we are "re-inventing the wheel"?

[birdeen's call]

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think of a morpheme as the smallest unit of meaning in a language. If this is so, morphemes SHOULD be able to be tagged and followed.

Does anyone know if we are "re-inventing the wheel"?

What does "tagged and followed" mean in this context? I don't understand...

[Frank Antonson]

By "tagged" I mean identified as a unit. By "followed" I mean shown how that unit goes on to effect other things. And example would be the "-s" for plural in English effecting the ending of the verb. "Boys run" as opposed to "The boy runs".