What is a word?

Zúñiga, Fernando (2023). What is a word? In: Dagostino, Carmen; Mithun, Marianne; Rice, Keren (eds.) The languages and linguistics of Indigenous North America: A comprehensive guide. The World of Linguistics: Vol. 13.1 (pp. 183-204). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton 10.1515/9783110600926-008

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The recent literature on wordhood has shown the importance of disentangling patterns of sound (the phonological domain) from patterns of grammar (the morphosyntactic domain) for defining units that can be meaningfully called “words.” The present chapter outlines the main issues involved when identifying, analyzing, and classifying these phonological words and grammatical words from the perspective of Indigenous North American languages. It summarizes what we already know about how diverse and elusive they can be, as well as the areas where we need further research to learn more about complex and heterogeneous phenomena related to word(-like) units.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics > Applied Linguistics 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Zúñiga, Fernando
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages
ISBN:	9783110597981
Series:	The World of Linguistics
Publisher:	De Gruyter Mouton
Language:	English
Submitter:	Fernando Zúñiga
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2023 12:50
Last Modified:	24 Aug 2023 08:37
Publisher DOI:	10.1515/9783110600926-008
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/183367