Word

See also: Word (homonymy)

In the language running, a word is a continuation of sounds or graphic characters forming a unit Sémantique and being able to be distinguished by a separator (white typographical with the writing, pauses with the oral examination).

This definition is however not Linguistique and the concept of word raises big problems of identification. This concept arose above all with the intuition of the speakers, each one knowing to quote words or to identify them without to be able to explain which are its criteria of judgment.

Among the main issues presenting itself when one wants to define the concept of words , one can quote those:

  • in the spoken language, there exists only one chain of Phonème S sometimes, separate by pauses. The typographical white (for example) inevitably does not have an oral representation, which can be symbolized by the punctuation;
  • all the writing S not using the typographical white (it is the case in Chinese, where one distinguishes besides the characters , 字 zì , of the words , 詞 cí , whereas nothing indicates, in the writing of this language, the limits between words) or some other separator of words (like the not, sometimes used by the Romans in the monumental inscriptions in Latin), it would not be possible to find words in all the languages. However, one agrees to say that each language has some. In addition, the great majority of the languages is not written;
  • a person listening to a statement pronounced in a language which he does not know will not be able to identify the words of them. If it knows what is a phoneme, on the other hand, it will be able to identify them without including/understanding the direction of the statement;
  • if it is possible to identify the words while separating those of a statement by pauses (in the sentence jamais.il.ne.vient one will not be able to place pauses - symbolized here by points - what between the words), or by permuting them ( Jean.aime.Paul → Paul.aime.Jean ) that to make words like this and those ? Is it logical that the first counts only for one word and the second for two whereas this is only one manner of writing *ce-ci and that those cannot be separate here of without changing direction? In the same way, as to think of today which is historically a phrase made up of four words ( at the day of today ) Lexicalisé E? With the , day and D (E) can be identified like words but not today . Lastly, with the , result of a Agglutination, does it count for a word or two ( with + the )? Potato is a word, or three?
  • Must one consider that beautiful , beautiful , beautiful , beautiful and beautiful are five different words or only one?

One will then prefer with the word the Vocable, the Word-form, the lemma (or lexical item), the Locution, the Lexème, the Forme of the lexeme, the Morphème which, them, has a linguistic definition, or even the made up Mot in certain cases.

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