Timeline for What prevents certain grammatical forms to be analysed as one word?
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| Feb 24, 2018 at 4:23 | comment | added | Alex B. | To make things worse, the degree of fusion even among clitics (i.e. outliers) can vary too: cf. Russian бери же vs. бери-ка vs. берись, a common path for grammaticalization, a (free) word - a (phonetically dependent) clitic - a (bound) affix. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 4:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/967249086373089280 | ||
| Feb 24, 2018 at 4:01 | comment | added | Alex B. | Luckily, the examples and languages you use are easy to interpret. For English, the good old trio - positional mobility, uninterruptability, internal stability - does the trick. As for Turkish, vowel harmony generally operates within a word. Real problems start with some other languages. | |
| Feb 24, 2018 at 0:51 | answer | added | brass tacks | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 23:01 | answer | added | Greg Lee | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 22:26 | history | edited | AJF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 22:11 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | This is a good question, but would be better served with a different example. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 19:03 | vote | accept | AJF | ||
| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:51 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | You cannot analyse an apple as just one word with a prefix, because you can put many different words between 'a/an' and a noun, for example, a big and tasty apple. If you try to analyse this noun phrase as a compound noun, then you'll have to find a way to explain how different conjunctions can got incorporated into a noun. Generally speaking, the borders between words are just a convention, because nobody can still give a definition of what word is. | |
| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:50 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 9 | |
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| Feb 23, 2018 at 18:22 | history | asked | AJF | CC BY-SA 3.0 |