Re: Negation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> I wonder if there is not another tendency to enlarge mono-syllabic

words.

> Chinese "syllables" are most often used in two-syllable words.
> Many English mono-syllabic words work in pairs, with a postposition

: cut

> off, get up, etc.

The English pattern examplifies the general pattern that words erode
by shedding phon(em)es and grow by adding morphemes.

Richard.