<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Martin,<div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="" style="display: inline !important;">I agree with Ian that "the emergence of spaces is sufficient evidence of wordhood", in the sense of orthographic wordhood – because spaces define orthographic words.</span></blockquote><br class=""><div>In Taiwan now it is common to add spaces in newspaper headlines, usually between topic and comment, but often between phrases. Attached is one example, with the relevant parts marked in yellow. These are all topic-comment examples.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Randy</div><div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">——</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Professor Randy J. LaPolla（罗仁地), PhD FAHA </span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Center for Language Sciences</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai Campus</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13px;" class="">A302, Muduo Building, #18 Jinfeng Road, Zhuhai City, Guangdong, China</span><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><br style="font-size: 13px;" class=""><div style="font-size: 13px;">邮编：519000<br class="">广东省珠海市唐家湾镇金凤路18号木铎楼A302<br class="">北京师范大学珠海校区<br class="">人文和社会科学高等研究院<br class="">语言科学研究中心 </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div></div></div></body></html>