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- 2. Difficulties in the definition of the word There are a lot of definitions of the word.
- 3. 2. An indivisible unit of thought. 3. The minimal free form. (Bloomfield) Distinction should be made
- 4. Count the words in the following sentence: You can’t tie a bow with the rope in
- 5. bow 1 [beu]– kilpa bow 2 [bau] – laivo priekis The answer: There are 11 different
- 6. There are 13 different lexemes. (the two instances of bow are two distinct lexemes since they
- 7. Four characteristics of words The word is an uninterruptible unit. Elements are added to the beginning
- 8. It is not always easy to recognize morphemes – woman, cupboard, breakfast historically compound words, but
- 9. Ambiguity in the notion of word The most important sources of ambiguity of word are four:
- 10. 2. The multiple aspects of every word. We have to discriminate between distinctive and non-distinctive features
- 11. 4. Lack of familiarity with the referent of a word. General knowledge and specific interests of
- 12. Word meaning The word as a linguistic sign consists of meaning and form referent, concept, form
- 13. Sense – meaning relations within language There may be words that have sense but no denotation
- 14. Connotation – the associations that a word has over and above its denotation. Linguistically significant are
- 15. Hollywood denotes an area of LA known as the center of American movie industry, but connotes
- 16. The referential meaning of a lexeme is its denotation and connotation. It depends on the context
- 17. Salt – a natural white mineral added to food to make it taste better (Longman 2007)
- 18. Multiword Lexemes Definition of lexeme (Jackson and Ze Amvela 2001: 63): it is a unit of
- 19. Multiword verbs These are phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs and phrasal-prepositional verbs. The clues that help to
- 20. Prepositional verbs are always transitive, i.e. they always take the direct object. The preposition must go
- 21. Intransitive: Get up at once. Won’t you sit down? He will never give in. The firm
- 22. 3. Prepositional phrasal verbs put up with – “tolerate” look down on – “despise” rub up
- 23. Idioms Idioms consist of more than one word. The meaning of an idiom cannot be predicted
- 24. Idioms are often called “frozen metaphors”. They are fixed expressions. The native speakers may use idioms
- 25. Thus what is and what is not an idiom is a matter of degree. We can
- 26. In an idiom in the greatest majority of cases no word can be replaced by a
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