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I felt that Dixon & Aikhenvald's (2002) introductory chapter was
very interesting:<br>
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<div class="csl-entry">Dixon, R. M. W & Aikhenvald, Alexandra
Y. 2002. Word: A typological framework. In Dixon, R. M.W &
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (eds.), <i>Word: A cross-linguistic
typology</i>, 1–41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</div>
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Thy say (p. 2-3) that "it appears that only some languages actually
have a lexeme with the meaning ‘word’... The vast majority of
languages spoken by small tribal groups (with from a few hundred to
a few thousand speakers) have a lexeme meaning ‘(proper) name’ but
none have the meaning ‘word’."<br>
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Even Latin does not have a single word for 'word' (there is <i>verbum</i>,
<i>vox</i>, <i>sermo</i>, and <i>dictio</i>, the latter a
technical calque from Greek <i>léxis</i>).<br>
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(Dixon & Aikhenvald's 2002 paper was a major inspiration for my
2011 paper on the indeterminacy of word segmentation.)<br>
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Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 26.11.21 um 07:16 schrieb JOO, Ian
[Student]:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Dear typologists,<br>
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As you may know already, the concept of “word” is notoriously
hard to define.<br>
Without getting into that, is the concept of wordhood attested
cross-linguistically?<br>
In other words, do people with different language backgrounds
believe that there is such a thing as a “word”, and do what
people perceive as a “word” tend to be roughly the same
concept?<br>
Which boils down to two questions:</div>
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<li>Do many languages have a native, monomorphemic word for
“word”?</li>
<li>If so, do these words for “word” refer to roughly the same
(or, at least, similar) concept?</li>
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<div dir="auto">I would like to examine whether wordhood is a
psychological reality shared by speakers of different
languages.</div>
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Regards,
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