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| | Tenser, said the Tensor: Redundant Morphemes |
 | | The word edogawa (江戸川) is made up of edo, the old name of Tokyo, and gawa, the word for river (actually kawa, but phonology is, as always, in effect). |
 | | I wanted to use Google to find out how often edogawa is used in the phrase "edogawa river" as opposed to just "edogawa", but it turns out that there's also a city named Edogawa, so a bare occurrence of the word may refer either to the city or to the river. |
 | | For the major rivers in Tokyo, Edogawa always seems to be Edogawa River and Arakawa always seems to be Arakawa River, but Sumidagawa is usually Sumida River, and Tamagawa is ususally Tama River. |
| tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2004/11/redundant_morph.html (1367 words) |
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