To Be or Not to Be a Word: New Reflections on the Definition of Word
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To Be or Not to Be a Word: New Reflections on the Definition of Word


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This book discusses the nature and definition of what a word is in Linguistics. This is not an easy task since the term subsumes a wide range of phenomena explored from an even wider array of perspectives. Although words are the most accessible linguistic units from the speaker's introspection viewpoint, they are, at the same time, an incredibly elusive reality for the linguist. Issues such as their definition, theoretical status, limits, characteristics, and psycholinguistic reality are still controversial and open for debate.This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest discussions on the nature of word in Modern Linguistics. It gathers together under a single collective volume different views of what a word is from a wide range of diverse methodological and theoretical linguistic frameworks, such as phonological theory, linguistic typology, lexical generative morphology, generative syntax, cognitive grammar, and construction grammar. Despite their different backgrounds, all these papers are geared towards the same goal: to offer a detailed account of what a word is in their respective fields.All in all, this collection of papers offers different perspectives that will contribute to provide some answers to the myriad of questions that a simple phrase such as to be or not to be a Word brings to the fore.
About the Author: Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza. Her work focuses on cross-linguistic polysemy, constructions, semantic typology, sound symbolism, metaphor, perception, space-motion, and Basque. Her most recent publications include the books Cognitive Linguistics and Translation (with A. Rojo); Linguistica Cognitiva (with J. Valenzuela); Language, Mind, and the Lexicon (with Inchaurralde and Garcia); and Sound symbolism and motion in Basque.Jose-Luis Mendivil-Giro is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Zaragoza. His research has focused on the theory of grammar and the nature and extent of linguistic change and diversity. He is the author of Origen, evolucion y diversidad de las lenguas. Una aproximacion biolinguistica, and co-author (with Juan-Carlos Moreno Cabrera) of On Biology, History and Culture in Human Language. He has also edited (with C. Boeckx and M.C. Horno-Cheliz) Language, from a Biological Point of View.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781443862073
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 206 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 548 gr
  • ISBN-10: 144386207X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: Unabridged ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: New Reflections on the Definition of Word
  • Width: 147 mm


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