Week 1: what is a word

Question 1

Word token

Answer 1

Any concrete entity that makes up a sentence.

Question 2

Word type

Answer 2

An abstraction over one or more word tokens that have the same form.

Question 3

Word form

Answer 3

A phonological/orthographic shape that is used as a building block in a sentence.

Question 4

Lexeme

Answer 4

An abstraction over one ore more word forms that convey the same meaning.

Question 5

Tokenisation

Answer 5

The process of dividing a sentence into word tokens.

Question 6

Compounds

Answer 6

Combinations of more than one lexeme that typically have a meaning together that is not predictable from the meanings of the individual lexemes.

Question 7

Fixed phrases

Answer 7

A syntactic combination of lexemes that are used together and that has a meaning that is typically not predictable from the meanings of the individual lexemes.

Question 8

Lexical item

Answer 8

Any item consisting of a single of multiple word form(s), which, because of its unpredictable meaning (or form) must be learned individually.

Question 9

Relationship between lexeme and lexical item?

Answer 9

Lexemes are examples of lexical items

Question 10

Contraction

Answer 10

An orthographic entity consisting of two word forms, one of which is reduced.

Question 11

Clitic

Answer 11

An item that is phonologically attached to another word form but that in other respects behaves as an independent word form.

Question 12

Relationship between contraction and clitic?

Answer 12

A clitic is a type of contraction.