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On the Definition of Word

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On the Definition of Word
AuthorAnna Maria Di Sciullo, Edwin S. Williams
LanguageEnglish
Subjectmorphology
PublisherMIT Press
Publication date
1987
Pagesx + 118
ISBN9780262040914

On the Definition of Word is a 1987 book by Anna Maria Di Sciullo and Edwin S. Williams in which the authors examine the notion of word in linguistics. They distinguish four concepts of "word": listemes, morphological objects, syntactic atoms, and phonological words. The authors' main claim is that there is a strict distinction between syntax and morphology.

Reception

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Andrew Carstairs, Mark Baker, Sofia Ananiadou and Masayuki Ike-uchi have reviewed the book.[1][2][3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ Ike-Uchi, Masayuki (1988). "On the definition of word. By ANNA-MARIA DI SCIULLO and EDWIN WILLIAMS. (Linguistic inquiry monographs, 14.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. Pp. vii, 118". English Linguistics. 5: 313–328. doi:10.9793/elsj1984.5.313.
  2. ^ Carstairs, Andrew (March 1989). "Anna-Maria Di Sciullo and Edwin Williams, On the definition of word (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs 14). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1987. Pp. x + 118". Journal of Linguistics. 25 (1): 225–229. doi:10.1017/S0022226700012184. S2CID 145466232.
  3. ^ Ananiadou, Sofia (1 December 1990). "On the definition of word". Machine Translation. 4 (4): 313–317. doi:10.1007/BF00713706. ISSN 1573-0573. S2CID 6265181.
  4. ^ Baker, Mark (26 October 2020). "Morphological and syntactic objects: a review of Di Sciullo and Williams' On the definition of word". Yearbook of Morphology. De Gruyter Mouton: 259–284. doi:10.1515/9783112329528-014. ISBN 9783112329528.
  5. ^ "DI SCIULLO, Anna Maria and Edwin Williams. On the Definition of Word ". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 4 (2): 109–110. April 1991. doi:10.1080/0895769X.1991.10542658. ISSN 0895-769X.