Unspaced Compound Word
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An Unspaced Compound Word is a Compound Content Word with no Pause or Whitespace.
- AKA: Unspaced Compound Content Word, Unspaced Compound, Closed Compound Word.
- Context:
- It can be:
- Example(s):
- “viewpoint”, an Unspaced Compound Word.
- “Schadenfreude”, an Unspaced Compound Word, Schaden(harm)+Freude (joy); http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
- Counter-Example(s):
- “insurance”, a Derived Word (from insure).
- “real time”, English Compound Adjective.
- “life insurance” a Mass Noun that is Spaced Compound Word.
- “high schools”, an Inflected Countable Common Noun that is a Spaced Compound Word.
- "data mining," a Mass Noun that is a Technical Term.
- “sisters-in-law”, a Hyphenated Compound Word.
- a Chinese Word.
- See: Spaced Compound Word.
References
2015
- (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns Retrieved:2015-5-29.
- Since English is a mostly analytic language, unlike most other Germanic languages, it creates compounds by concatenating words without case markers. As in other Germanic languages, the compounds may be arbitrarily long. [1] However, this is obscured by the fact that the written representation of long compounds always contains spaces. Short compounds may be written in three different ways, which do not correspond to different pronunciations, however:
- The "solid" or "closed" forms in which two usually moderately short words appear together as one. Solid compounds most likely consist of short (monosyllabic) units that often have been established in the language for a long time. Examples are housewife, lawsuit, wallpaper, basketball, etc.
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- The "solid" or "closed" forms in which two usually moderately short words appear together as one. Solid compounds most likely consist of short (monosyllabic) units that often have been established in the language for a long time. Examples are housewife, lawsuit, wallpaper, basketball, etc.
- Since English is a mostly analytic language, unlike most other Germanic languages, it creates compounds by concatenating words without case markers. As in other Germanic languages, the compounds may be arbitrarily long. [1] However, this is obscured by the fact that the written representation of long compounds always contains spaces. Short compounds may be written in three different ways, which do not correspond to different pronunciations, however:
- ↑ Plag, Ingo. ""Word-formation in English"". Cambridge University Press, 2003, p.172. "There is no structural limitation on the recursivity of compounding, but the longer a compound becomes the more difficult it is for the speakers/listeners to process, i.e. produce and understand correctly. Extremely long compounds are therefore disfavored not for structural but for processing reasons."