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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Word (linguistics) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In most writing systems, a word is usually marked out in the text by interword separation such as spaces or word dividers used in some languages such as Amharic.
		Likewise, a proper noun is a word, however long it is. A space may not be even the main morpheme boundary in a word; the word New Yorker is a compound of New York and -er, not of New and Yorker.
		In polysynthetic languages, the number of morphemes per word can become so large that the word performs the same grammatical role as a phrase or clause in less synthetic languages (for example, in Yupik, angyaghllangyugtuq means "he wants to acquire a big boat").
	www.hallencyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/Word_(linguistics).html (920 words)

	Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistics
		Linguists focus on describing and explaining language and are not concerned with the prescriptive rules of the language (ie., do not split infinitives).
		Linguists are not required to know many languages and linguists are not interpreters.
		Linguistics is a social science that shares common ground with other social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, sociology and archaeology.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/3920/index.html (653 words)

	Linguistics
		Compounds are a combination of words, acronyms are derived from the initials of words, back-formations are created from removing what is mistakingly considered to be an affix, abbreviations or clippings are shortening longer words, eponyms are created from proper nouns (names), and blending is combining parts of words into one.
		Linguistic changes like sound shift is found in the history of all languages, as evidenced by the regular sound correspondences that exist between different stages of the same language, different dialects, and different languages.
		Linguists identify regular sound correspondences using the comparative method among the cognates (words that developed from the same ancestral language) of related languages.
	www.ielanguages.com /linguist.html (8137 words)

	UCL Phonetics & Linguistics
		Word Grammar is a theory of language structure which Richard (= Dick) Hudson has been building since the early 1980's.
		If you're a real beginner in linguistics, you might like to look at a free on-line introduction to linguistics by Michael Gasser which takes a cognitive and functionalist view that I feel comfortable with.
		Hudson, R (2003) Word Grammar (5000 words for the forthcoming Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics)
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/dick/wg.htm (1262 words)

	Root (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.
		The root of a word is a unit of meaning (morpheme) and, as such, it is an abstraction, though it can usually be represented in writing as a word would be.
		This distinction between the word as a unit of speech and the root as a unit of meaning is even more important in the case of languages where roots have many different forms when used in actual words, as is the case in Semitic languages.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Root_(linguistics) (494 words)

	Corpus Linguistics
		A collection of linguistic data, either written texts or a transcription of recorded speech, which can be used as a starting-point of linguistic description or as a means of verifying hypotheses about a language.
		Corpus linguistics is simply the study of language through corpus-based research, but it differs from traditional linguistics in its insistence on the systematic study of authentic examples of language in use.
		If a word has two meanings it is possible to predict that it also has at least two structures (Sinclair, 1997: 35-36) and this is only made possible by studying examples of language in use.
	www.engl.polyu.edu.hk /corpuslinguist/corpus.htm (1438 words)

	Linguistics
		Linguistics approaches to reality show how meaning is contained in words and their use.
		Traditional linguistics looks more at the langue of grammar, where rules are set out for the chess of speaking and writing.
		Saussure also distinguished between syntagmatic (horizontal) relationships, which are across words in a phrase or sentence, and associative (vertical) relationships, which are alternative interpretations of a single word within the sentence.
	changingminds.org /explanations/research/philosophies/linguistics.htm (745 words)

	Word Ways Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For more than thirty years, Word Ways has explored the many facets of logology (an old word resurrected by the late Dmitri Borgmann to describe recreational linguistics).
		Word Ways is currently edited by Ross Eckler, author of the recent book Making the Alphabet Dance (St. Martin's, 1996), a survey of the field and the many new discoveries made in the last thirty-five years.
		Word Ways is published in an 80-page format four times a year (February, May, August, November).
	www.wordways.com (164 words)

	Exploratorium Magazine: Language: Word Histories
		The earlier forms of a word are given in italics, and their definitions, when different from the meaning of the modern English form, are given in ordinary (roman) type
		By finding words with similar sounds and meanings in other languages, it's often possible to trace the history of a word back through many centuries.
		The history of a word, called its etymology, is often a good clue to its most essential meaning.
	www.exploratorium.edu /exploring/language/word_histories.html (311 words)

	Linguistics @ neuvel.net
		Whole Word Morphology is a theory of non-concatenative morphology developed by Alan Ford and Rajendra Singh at the Université de Montréal.
		It focuses on contrastive relations between whole words and is one of the very few truly word-based theories of morphology.
		WWM is a small application developped within the framework of Whole Word Morphology that identifies word-based morphological relations in a lexicon and creates new words based on these relations.
	www.neuvel.net /linguistics.htm (241 words)

	Echo-Word Redup List
		These are words that frequently are subject to special phonotactic constraints and that frequently involve some form of reduplication.
		Again, this semantic sharing of an entire cluster of senses with a linguistic form that is not itself doubled suggests a conceptual basis for the particular set of senses observed.
		The use of linguistic forms meaning baby to also mean small is illustrated in such English sentences as Look, a baby airplane, meaning a small airplane.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/echoword (6806 words)

	yourDictionary.com.Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal
		Words and phrases that are spelled the same way forwards or backwards.
		Terry Light's witty exploration of the semantic shadings of phonologically similar words.
		An in-depth discussion of historical linguistics focussed on the origins of Indo-European languages.
	www.yourdictionary.com /fun.html (895 words)

	UCL Phonetics & Linguistics
		Word Grammar for Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (April 2004)
		Word Grammar - for Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (July 2003)
		Linguistic theory (for the Handbook of Educational Linguistics) (June 2006)
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/dick/papers.htm (298 words)

	Word-count for chinese (Linguistics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I need to prune it so that it is roughly equivalent to a 1000 word English document; as I have no knowledge of the Chinese language or writing system, my only way of doing this is by using MS Word's wordcounting tool.
		The somewhat coarse and arbitrary logic behind it: A large proportion of Chinese words (but by far not all!!!) are made up of two characters.
		Therefore for a 1,000 word English text, making the calculation on the Chinese character side, there would be about 1,325 Chinese characters.
	www.proz.com /topic/58362 (394 words)

	fabulousness - linguistics and stuff
		Lo and behold, one of the first things that came up in google was a linguistics paper.
		So there's that new version of Google News, and you can search for computational linguistics or natural language processing on it, and it does appear that much of what comes up is tangential press releases, but there are a few useful things here and there.
		This via bouillabaise for the soul, another linguist weblog, and a recent blogger blog of note.
	fabulousness.pitas.com (1460 words)

	Nonce-word Pragmatics - Louis Cabri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To distinguish between neologism and nonce-word raises the role definitions have in establishing the ideality of the word as a linguistic (and cultural) unit.
		The neologism recruits, with every new dictionary addition, for the word as such – which here must be understood as itself having an instrumental function that might not have been perceived by modernist poets who claimed the word-as-such as a poetic liberation from instrumentality.
		A new word or phrase, or a new use of a word.
	www.monoecious.org /cabri-nonce.html (1306 words)

	Derivation (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In linguistics, derivation is the process of creating new lexemes from other lexemes, for example, by adding a derivational affix.
		Derivational affixes usually apply to words of one syntactic category and change them into words of another syntactic category.
		Some linguists consider that when a word's syntactic category is changed without any change of form, a null morpheme is being affixed.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Derivation_(linguistics) (231 words)

	word formation Introduction to Linguistics
		Instead it investigates past and present means for creating words in languages; that is, some of these means may not be in use any longer.
		But understanding the way in which the word was formed anew at one point in the past helps us see the relationship with other words.
		It is a word that we learned as kids so we could brag to know the longest word in German.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/aschramm/linguistics2001/5wordfrm.html (837 words)

	Structural Linguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The object of linguistics, Saussure argued, must be language (langue) and not speech (parole).
		Thus in linguistics, while we may collect our data from actual instances of speech but the goal is to work back to the system of rules and words that organizes speech.
		This understanding of speech treats it as a "social fact." The concept of a social fact was derived from the work of the great French social theorist Emil Durkheim.
	www.aucegypt.edu /academic/anth/anth352/structural_linguistics.htm (754 words)

	Word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are other articles with similar names; see Word (disambiguation).
		to day) to hyphenated (to-day) to a single word (today), a process which is still ongoing, as in the common spelling of all right as alright, frowned upon by prescriptivists, as well as the spelling of in so far as insofar, generally accepted but not universal.
		Even with the careful application of these methods, the exact definition of a word is often still very elusive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Word_(linguistics) (953 words)

	What is a word?
		A word is a unit which is a constituent at the phrase level and above.
		A word is sometimes placed, in a hierarchy of grammatical constituents, above the morpheme level and below the phrase level.
		In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAWord.htm (129 words)

	World Wide Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Plus comments from subscribers, notes on words in the news, and other features.
		Grok We must look to Robert Anson Heinlein for the origins of this word, which he invented for his science-fantasy book Stranger in a Strange Land in 1961.
		Words vanish from our language for many reasons, not least that the thing it describes has gone out of daily use.
	www.worldwidewords.org (671 words)

	Word Fun - alphaDictionary.com
		Palindromes: Words and phrases that are spelled the same way forwards and backwards.
		Here is the word list you have all been waiting for: words that have become obsolete for good reason.
		Martha Barnette is a logophiliac with a hatful of words with surprising histories.
	www.alphadictionary.com /fun/fun.html (486 words)

	The Linguistic Fun Page
		This whole thing started because linguistics is my second love (it's preceded by mathematics, if you're curious).
		Linguistic Humor - from the almighty Internet Oracle.
		While Jesse's Word of the Day is no longer updated, the archive at Random House is still well worth casual browsing.
	www.ojohaven.com /fun (136 words)

	Home
		Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words.
		If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language.
		Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.
	pw1.netcom.com /~rlederer/index.htm (162 words)

	I L A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Established in 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York, in 1969
		the Society's name was changed to the International Linguistic Association.
		The Association publishes its journal, WORD, which appears three times a year.
	www.ilaword.org (216 words)

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