Hyphenated Word
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A Hyphenated Word is a Terminal Word Mention that includes a Hyphen Character.
- Context:
- It can be:
- a Hyphenated Compound Word.
- a Typographical Hyphenated Word, due to formatting.
- an accented Collocation, e.g. "once-upon-a-time".
- It can be:
- See: Word Formation.
References
1999
- (Manning and Schütze, 1999) ⇒ Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze. (1999). “Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing." The MIT Press.
- Do sequences of letters with a hyphen in between count as one word or two? Again, the intuitive answer seems to be sometimes one, sometimes two. This reflects the many sources of hyphen in texts.
- One source is typographical. Words have traditionally been broken and hyphens inserted to improve justification of text.
- Some things with hyphens are clearly best treated as single words, such as e-mail or co-operate, or A1-plus (as in A-1-plus commercial paper, a financial rating). Other cases are more arguable, although we usually want to regard them as a single words, for example, non-lawyer, pro-Arb, and so-called. The hyphens here might be termed lexical hyphens. They are commonly inserted before or after small words formatives, sometimes for the purpose of splitting up vowel sequences.
- The third class of hyphens is ones inserted to help indicate the correct grouping of words. A common copy-editing practice is to hyphenate compound pre-modifiers, as in the example earlier in the sense or in examples like these:
- 4.1a the once-quiet study of superconductivity.
- 4.1b a though regime of business-conduct rules
- 4.1c the aluminum-export ban.
- 4.1d a text-based medium.
- And hyphens occur in other places, where a phrase is seen as in some sense quotative or as expressing a quantity or rate:
- 4.2a the ideas of a child-as-required-yuppie-possession must be motivating them.
- 4.2b a final "take-it-or-leave-it" offer.
- 4.3c the 90-cent-an-hour raise.
- 4.3d the 26-year-old
- In these cases, we would probably want to treat the things joined by hyphens as separate words.