semiword
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]semiword (plural semiwords)
- (linguistics) The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.[1]
- Hypernym: word
- Coordinate terms: autonomous word, affixoid, affix
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kenesei, István. Semiwords and affixoids: The territory between word and affix. In: Acta Linguistica Hungarica vol. 54 (2007), issue 3, pp. 263–293.