Lexical units may need to be smaller than the word: Lexical units may need to be larger than the word (e.g. Singular, in orthographic representation. Lemma, generally the canonical inflectional form such as nominative In standard dictionaries, the paradigmĭefinition of word is used, represented by a headword or In speech technology, the inflected word form is the nominative singular), or by the stem sharedīy the forms and identified by linguistic analysis, or by a number or otherĪbstract label. soundĪnd sounds then belong to the same word, which may be characterised by aĬanonical inflected form (e.g. On the other hand, words may be regarded asĪ class of inflectionally related forms (a paradigm), i.e. Words may be inflected word forms, making sound (singular) and Particular types of word formation such as spelling and acronymįormation may require special attention: ecu hi:z/, French l' in il l'a vu - /il la vy:/, German Examples of clitics are English 's in he's Words may be merged with other words in informal speech (Ĭliticisation). Objects, properties, event types, abstract concepts. To, for with reduced pronunciations and structural meanings, andĬontent words, e.g. Words have different status in respect of their phonetic realisationsĪnd their meaning compare the difference between function words, e.g. compound words such as database, Sprachtechnologie).
The intuitive notion of word has ``fuzzy edges'', as in the following cases: Intuitively, the prototypic lexical unit is a word. Next: Lexical properties and lexical Up: Types of lexical information Previous: A simple sign model
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