| Lemma | compound word |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | compounded element (inglese) compounded term (inglese) |
| Rinvii | accent (inglese) composition (inglese) function (inglese) meaning (inglese) sequence (inglese) syllable (inglese) word (inglese) word order (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Such languages as Chinese and English, in which the principle of rigid sequence is well developed, tend not infrequently also to the development of compound words. [...] we may [...] frankly write 'shui-fu' as a single word, the meaning of the compound as a whole being as divergent from the precise etymological values of its component elements as is that of our English word typewriter from the merely combined values of 'type' and 'writer'. In English the unity of the word 'typewriter' is [...] safeguarded by a predominant accent on the first syllable [...] Chinese also unifies its compounds by means of stress. [...] classical Greek, in spite of its relative freedom in the placing of words, has a very considerable bent for the formation of compound terms. There is a bewildering variety of types of composition. These types vary according to function, the nature of the compounded elements, and order. |