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 see.
According to the Chomskean theories on syntax, every syntactic structure is binary-branching. This theory covers all of the syntactic structures including sentences, clauses, phrases, words, and even morphemes. As a result, a system developed according to a view like this can be used to diagram all of the meaningful language units.
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")
Nice words!
Well, the third technical expression (intermediate projection) was introduced years ago, but, following the rubric of naming phenomena and entities, I decided to coin the two first expressions to describe the morphological structure. 'Going where no man has gone before' certainly applies to the expressions!
And, as far as I know Arabic, I expect the post to contain the first instance of an Arabic word diagramed that way- yet I can't be sure of this.
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.
Absolutely! Some these aspects are studied under the phonology of morphemes.
Frank