From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61888
Date: 2008-12-05
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Negation
>
> On 2008-12-05 12:15, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
>> I've never read that somebody proposed that short words should be
>> considered more probably inherited than long ones !?
>> Is there a theory on that ?
>
> Let us have a look at the parapgaph above. It contains the following
> monosyllabic words:
>
> I, have, read, that [conj.], short, words, should, be, more, than, long,
> ones, is, there, a, on, that [pron.]
>
> The following words are polysyllabic:
>
> never, somebody, proposed, considered, probably, inherited, theory
>
> In which group is there a larger proportion of inherited words?
>
> Piotr
>
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Good joke, M. Gasiorowski.
Now you translate that sentence in French,
and I let you explain me which words are inherited.
"je n'ai jamais lu que quelqu'un ait proposé que les mots courts devraient
être considérés plus probablement hérités que les longs".
As far as I can see, all words are inherited or made with inherited
morphemes.
And I also suggest you look at Japanese.
All the monosyllabic are Chinese LWs,
Most presumably Japanese words have 2 and more syllables.
A.