semiword

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ word.

Noun

semiword (plural semiwords)

  1. (linguistics) The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.[1]
    Hypernym: word
    Coordinate terms: autonomous word, affixoid, affix

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References

  1. ^ Kenesei, István. Semiwords and affixoids: The territory between word and affix. In: Acta Linguistica Hungarica vol. 54 (2007), issue 3, pp. 263–293.
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