Linguistic Word
A Linguistic Word is a linguistic component that can be used to create linguistic expressions.
- AKA: Natural Language Word.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Used Linguistic Word Instance to being an Abstract Linguistic Word.
- It can (typically) be composed of one or more Morphs (each of which has a corresponding morpheme)
- It can be composed of one or more Root (unless its a rootless Neologism, such as Joyce's “quark”).
- It can be a member of a Linguistic Word Set, such as a part-of-speech class (nouns, verbs, etc.)
- It can be mapped to a Dictionary Entry, a Vocabulary Item, an Etymology,
- Example(s):
- “Jane”, a Word Form (from the Proper Noun Class).
- “went”, a Word Form (from the Verb Class).
- GO, a Lexeme, from the Base Lexeme Class.
- “quickly”, a Word Form (from the Adverb Class).
- “with”, a Word Form (from the Preposition Class).
- “her”, a Word Form (from the Pronoun Class).
- “sisters-in-law's”
- “great-great-great-grandmother's”
- NONCOMBATANT, Compound Lexeme (from the Adjective Class).
- “entourage”, a Word Form (from the Common Noun Class).
- “Ouch”, Word Form from the Interjection Class.
- "5, a Numeral.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- pseudo-, a Morpheme.
- -er, a Morpheme.
- -s, a Morpheme.
- q, an Alphabetic Letter.
- !, Punctuation.
- wolv, a Morph.
- a Graph.
- See: Lexical Item, Orthographic Word, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Meaning (Linguistics), Compound Word, Phrase, NL Sentence, Spoken Word.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/word Retrieved:2015-1-30.
- In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content (with literal or practical meaning). This contrasts with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own. A word may consist of a single morpheme (for example: oh!, rock, red, quick, run, expect), or several (rocks, redness, quickly, running, unexpected), whereas a morpheme may not be able to stand on its own as a word (in the words just mentioned, these are -s, -ness, -ly, -ing, un-, -ed).
A complex word will typically include a root and one or more affixes (rock-s, red-ness, quick-ly, run-ning, un-expect-ed), or more than one root in a compound (black-board, rat-race). Words can be put together to build larger elements of language, such as phrases (a red rock), clauses (I threw a rock), and sentences (He threw a rock too but he missed).
The term word may refer to a spoken word or to a written word, or sometimes to the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of units of sound called phonemes, and written words of symbols called graphemes, such as the letters of the English alphabet.
- In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content (with literal or practical meaning). This contrasts with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own. A word may consist of a single morpheme (for example: oh!, rock, red, quick, run, expect), or several (rocks, redness, quickly, running, unexpected), whereas a morpheme may not be able to stand on its own as a word (in the words just mentioned, these are -s, -ness, -ly, -ing, un-, -ed).
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=word
- S: (n) word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify) "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Word
- 1. (linguistics) A distinct unit of language (sounds in speech or written letters) with a particular meaning, composed of one or more morphemes, and also of one or more phonemes that determine its sound pattern.
- "Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.” --1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, II.ii
- 1. (linguistics) A distinct unit of language (sounds in speech or written letters) with a particular meaning, composed of one or more morphemes, and also of one or more phonemes that determine its sound pattern.
- (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word
- A word is a unit of language that represents a concept which can be expressively communicated with meaning. A word consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetic value.
Typically a word will consist of a root or stem and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a compound. A word combined with an already existing word or part of a word form a portmanteau.
- A word is a unit of language that represents a concept which can be expressively communicated with meaning. A word consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetic value.
2003
- (Mikheev, 2003) ⇒ Andrei Mikheev. (2003). “Text Segmentation.” In: (Mitkov, 2003).
- QUOTE: The first step in the majority of text processing applications is to segment text into words. The term 'word', however, is ambiguous: a word from a language's vocabulary can occur many times in the text but it is still a single individual word of the language. So there is a distinction between words of vocabulary or word types and multiple occurrences of these words in the text which are called word tokens. This is why the process of segmenting words tokens in text is called tokenization. Although the distinction between word types and word tokens is important it is usual to refer to the both as 'words' whenever the context unambiguously implies the interpretation.