10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINIMAL FREE FORM»
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1
Signs, Mind, and Reality: A theory of language as the folk ...
Bloomfield defines the word as a free form that cannot be divided into smaller
free forms. The word is a minimal free form. Thus, in our example John, ran, and
away are words because they are minimal free forms (Bloomfield 1933: 178).
2
Analyticity and Syntheticity: A Diachronic Perspective with ...
2 3.2 The criterion of isolatedness Under this heading falls Bloomfield's well-
known definition of the word as minimal free form. In Language we read that 'a
word, then, is a free form which does not consist entirely of (two or more) lesser
free ...
3
Morphology: Morphology: primes, phenomena and processes
Minimal free form ' The first answer to be considered is Bloomfield's, which is
probably the most famous of all modern attempts to define the word in general
terms applicable to all languages. According to Bloomfield the word is 'a
minimum free ...
4
Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
306 minimal free form of go is Mary: this breaks the minimal-distance principle,
and it is hypothesized that children will have greater difficulty learning structures
involving such verbs, since they constitute exceptions to the general rule. minimal
...
For various reasons the third syllable from the endofa minimal free form is very
unlikely to be marked by <C>doubling. As we have justseen,a 'minimal free form'
isaword that can stand onits own asan utterance, withoutseparable parts.
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
(Also called minimal free form.) In a now classic definition, the American linguist
Leonard Bloomfield, in 1926, defined the word as a minimum free form. This
definition is open to criticism, as Bloomfield himself realized, since it would
exclude a, ...
Sylvia Chalker, Edmund Weiner, 1994
7
Syntactic Heads and Word Formation
Thus, the second minimal free form that can be isolated from the string of
morphemes is aquuteqarlluni 'it has a rudder'.2i Now only the final element -lu is
not accounted for. It is clear that -lu cannot occur in isolation, so on this criterion it
is not ...
8
Linguistics: An Introduction
Farmer is a minimal free form, since here farm cannot be separated from it; in
other sentences (e.g. Thefarm is the site of numerous killings of ducklings) farm is
a minimal free form. 2. However, there is a word ducked (as in He ducked to
avoid ...
William B. McGregor, 2009
SIDEKICK SPOTLIGHT GET ORGANIZED FREE-FORM • Files anything— names
, letters, projects, ideas NO free-form storage. Filing limited to index- Minimal free-
form filing. FILING • Stores alphabetically, by date, or in outline form. card-size ...
10
Cognitive Processing in Bilinguals
As indicated in the top of Table 4 the minimal free form in Chinese is the single
character monosyllabic ideogram (Henne, Rungen & Hansen 1977; Karlgren,
1962). According to Bloomfield and other linguists the minimal free form (as
opposed ...
