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From: mathias@uhunix4.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Gerald B Mathias)
Subject: Re: Korean and Japanese (was Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch))
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Patrick Chew (patchew@uclink2.berkeley.edu) wrote:

: 	While most main entries for <sekkaku> are <mocherem>, the context 
: here in the <sekkaku naratta..> made me use <him kkes twen>, etc.

You must have a Japanese-Korean dictionary!  I don't think I've ever
seen one.

: 	teach -		karuchita, karuche-cwuta
: 	learn -		paewuta

Thus reminded, I remember.  But I also have a clearer memory of walking
down the road one day on Paeklyengdo and having a couple of high school
girls say "yeng'e-lul alilkhyejwuseyyo."  I suspect there's a lot of
dialect variation.

: >is two words to one, four morphemes (five if "anh" = "an-h") to three.

: 	You'd really consider anh- as an-h-???

I consider most of what is done in the name of morphology to be language
history.  In that sense, yes, "anh-" is essentially "ani-ha-" with some
of the vowels gone.

Bart
