... things - knowing the words of that language. The average speaker knows thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. This book is about words. More specifically, ... (orthographic) words. If not, Benjamin's is one word. If you consider a hyphen a punctuation mark, high-rise is two (orthographic) words, otherwise it's one (orthographic) word. The last ... spellings are rather common (cf. word- formation, word formation, and wordformation, all of them attested), and even where the spelling is conventionalized, similar words are often spelled differently,...
... results. The properties of words are summarized in (5): (5) Properties of words - words are entities having a part of speech specification - words are syntactic atoms - words (usually) have ... thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. This book is about words. More specifically, it deals with the internal structure of complex words, i.e. words ... definition of word comes closer to our intuition of what a word should be. We have to take into consideration, however, that not all words carry stress. For example, function words like articles...
... orthographic word, grammatical word and the notion of lexeme as possible definitions of word . Apply each of these notions to the words occurring in example (20) of chapter 1 and show how many words ... definition of word comes closer to our intuition of what a word should be. We have to take into consideration, however, that not all words carry stress. For example, function words like articles ... applicable to function words and to words that hang on to other words, so-called clitics (e.g. ‘ve, ‘s, ‘ll). Let us now consider the integrity criterion, which says that the word is an indivisible...
... distinct words or inflectional word forms are not part of morphological grammar” and exclude expletive infixation from word- formation, “because neither new words nor inflectional word forms ... syllabification is the word. Given that we are talking about phonological units here, and given that the word is also a phonological unit (see the remarks on the notion of word in chapter 1) we ... column the word boundaries coincide with syllable boundaries, and the right column shows that syllabifications that are common and legal in monomorphemic words are prohibited across word boundaries....
... inventory of compounding patterns In English, as in many other languages, a number of different compounding patterns are attested. Not all words from all word classes can combine freely with ... the suffix is attached to a compound consisting of the two words, or the suffix is attached to the right-hand word and the derived word then forms a compound together with the non-head. In ... and say that a compound is a word that consists of two elements, the first of which is either a root, a word or a phrase, the second of which is either a root or a word. 1.2. More on the...
... results. The properties of words are summarized in (5): (5) Properties of words - words are entities having a part of speech specification - words are syntactic atoms - words (usually) have ... relevant to English word- formation. The first phenomenon which appears somewhat problematic for our notion of morpheme is conversion, the process by which words are derived from other words without ... study and description of word- internal structure (chapter 1), the problems that arise with the implementation of the said notions in the actual analysis of complex words in English (chapter 2),...
... orthographic word, grammatical word and the notion of lexeme as possible definitions of word . Apply each of these notions to the words occurring in example (20) of chapter 1 and show how many words ... thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. This book is about words. More specifically, it deals with the internal structure of complex words, i.e. words ... Basic level Exercise 1.1. Explain the notions of grammatical word, orthographic word, word- form and lexeme. Use the italicised words in the following examples to show the differences between...
... results. The properties of words are summarized in (5): (5) Properties of words - words are entities having a part of speech specification - words are syntactic atoms - words (usually) have ... thousands of words, and new words enter our minds and our language on a daily basis. This book is about words. More specifically, it deals with the internal structure of complex words, i.e. words ... Basic level Exercise 1.1. Explain the notions of grammatical word, orthographic word, word- form and lexeme. Use the italicised words in the following examples to show the differences between...
... indicates that the head word is to the right of the measure word. Although lots of measure words are close to the head words they modify, more than sixteen percent of measure words are far away ... /现代化 /经济/ 、/ 贸易/ 、 /金融/ 中心/ 的/ 项 . 。90 tween English head words and Chinese measure words. The other problem comes from the English head word selection error introduced by using source ... measure words and their head words. Once the head word is determined, the col-located measure word can usually be selected ac-cordingly. However, there is no easy way to identi-fy head words...