Once More: What Is a Word?

Authors

Dana Richards

Abstract

In recent issues of Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann and Richard Lederer struggled with the age-old linguistic question "What is a word?" without coming to any very satisfactory conclusions. In fact, both authors convinced me what a word is not: a collection of letters strung together (with or without spaces), or simply a collection of morphemes. This note attempts to shed a little further light on the problem.

Recommended Citation

Richards, Dana (1980) "Once More: What Is a Word?," Word Ways: Vol. 13 : Iss. 3 , Article 8.
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