Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Yes. 'The partitive article' (du, de l', de la) is mandatory with things
> you cannot count, and in everyday speech, French tends to skip all the schwas.
Indeed, one may go so far as to say that in French-based creoles,
all countable nouns begin with /l/ and all mass nouns with /d/.

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