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Defining the word

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ID4865481
AutoresMartin Haspelmath (0000-0003-2100-8493, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume69
Fascículo3
Páginas283-297
Data de publicação2023-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWORD (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00437956.2023.2237272
OpenAlexW4385842214
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas32

In this paper, I propose a definition of the term word that can be applied to all languages using the same criteria. Roughly, a word is defined as a free morph or a clitic or a root plus affixes or a compound plus affixes. The paper relies on earlier definitions of the terms free, morph, affix, clitic, root, and compound, which are summarized here. I briefly compare the proposed definition with Bloomfield's, I note that it is a shared-core definition, and I say how word-forms differ from lexemes. In the final section, I explain why I think that an unnatural-seeming definition is better than a prototype definition or other options

Affix · Clitic · Compound · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Prefix · Root (linguistics · Term (time · Word (group theory · Word formation · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy

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