This paper deals with the definition of the word, which has various criteria and meanings. We will see that the word as linguistic unit until deserves some attention by means of syntactic, semantic, phonological, and morphological viewpoints. It can b...
This paper deals with the definition of the word, which has various criteria and meanings. We will see that the word as linguistic unit until deserves some attention by means of syntactic, semantic, phonological, and morphological viewpoints. It can be elusive, undefinable, and exceptional. Also we will see that words can be composed of smaller units, called morphemes, which have much relation to their internal structure, that is, lexeme, prefix, suffix, etc. Also, the division between derivation and inflection is not always exactly fixed and has some exceptions.