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A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its definition and numerous attempts to find specific criteria of the concept remain controversial. Different…

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Bibliography

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  • OCLC OCLC (identifier)

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Word

Nodes133
Edges132
Triples139
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.015038
Components1

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Top relations

related to Bibliography · 28
Word → Amsterdam, Anne Anderson, Barton, Blackwell, Brown, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Crystal, CS1, David, Elsevier, England, English, Ingo, ISBN, Literacy, OCLC, Oxford, Oxford University Press
related to Word boundaries · 26
Word → Another, Chinese, East Asian, For, German, Hause, He, However, Ich, Indivisibility, Japanese, Lao, My, Nevertheless, Orthographic, Phonetic, Potential, Similarly, Some, Thai
related to Classes · 17
Word → Aleut, Austronesian, Each, English, Eskimo, Finally, For, However, In Lushootseed, It, Japanese, On, Salish, The, This, Typically, Wakashan
related to Phonology · 9
Word → Australia, Australian, In, In Walmatjari, It, One, Pitjantjatjara, Walmatjari, Wati
related to Morphology · 8
Word → Derivation, English, For, However, In, Inflection, Morphology, Words
related to Grammar · 7
Word → For, Grammatical, However, In Dyirbal, Single, Speakers, With
related to Orthography · 7
Word → For, French, In, In English, Portuguese, Sometimes, Spanish
related to Semantics · 7
Word → According, However, Leonard Bloomfield, Minimal Free Forms, Some, This, Words
related to Definitions · 6
Word → Because, However, In, It, Since, These
related to history · 6
Word → Ancient Greek, Different, Roman, The, There, This

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Important terminology

words languages language meaning morphemes may one grammatical example different phonological however english also root boundaries suffix single lexeme orthography

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Wordis abasic element of language that carries meaning0.90text
morphemes.Dictionaries categorize a language's lexicon into individually listed forms called lemmasinstance ofinstead focusing on better defined terms0.80text
-th or -ness.SemanticsLeonard Bloomfield introduced the concept ofinstance ofwhen asked to talk about untruthfulness they rarely focus on the meaning of morphemes0.80text
-th or -nessinstance ofwhen asked to talk about untruthfulness they rarely focus on the meaning of morphemes0.80text
Wordrelated to BibliographyBarton0.60section
Wordrelated to BibliographyDavid0.60section
Wordrelated to BibliographyLiteracy0.60section
Wordrelated to BibliographyOxford0.60section
Wordrelated to BibliographyUK0.60section
Wordrelated to BibliographyBlackwell0.60section
Wordrelated to BibliographyISBN0.60section
Wordrelated to BibliographyOCLC0.60section

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