A.
WORD
Definition
of word
Professor Charles F. Hockett “ A word is any
segment of sentence bounded by successive points at which pausing is possible”.
Following sentence will illustrate:
p p
p p
p p p p
p p
Since
the streetlamp is out, I must call up our
councilman.
In
this sentence the position of possible pause are marked by p’s, and every
segment between two p’s is a word. Note that call up is considered a word. Call
up belongs to a special class of two-part verbs-like keep on (continue), take off
(depart), butt in (interrupt), and show up (appear) that speaker of English
seem to sense as single word. Hence there would normally be no pause between
the two part.
So,
A word is the smallest segment of speech that can be used alone.
1. Simple
And Complex Word
English
word may be classified on the basis of the kind and combinations of morphemes
of which they are composed. We shall adopt a classification of three main
classes: simple, complex, and compound word.
·
Simple word consist of a single free
morpheme.
Example: slay,
flea, long, spirit.
·
Complex word contain, as their immediate
constituents, either two bound form or a bound and a free form.
Example of two
bound form :
Matri | cide tele | vise
Ex | clude cosmo | naut
Example of bound
and free form :
dipso | mania lion | ess tele | phone eras | er
2. Compound
Words
The third class
of words is compound words. These have free forms, usually two, as their
immediate constituents.
Example:
green | house out | side
no | show 
under | go over | ripe attornney | general
A small number
of compound word have three or four free forms as coordinate.
Example:
happy | -go | lucky spic | and | span
Compound words
resemble grammatical structures in that they imply, though do not state, a
grammatical relationship.
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