Joe:
#And Rosta wrote:
#> Okay, if you wanted to argue that there are discontinuous words then
#> maybe you could find examples;
#
#Actually, I don't want to argue things either way. I just want to
#be sure of the facts.
The facts are that there's no consensus about what words are
that's robust enough to give clear answers about borderline or
problem cases...
#> For that matter, can even phonological words be discontinuous?
#> One thinks of "fanfuckintastic", but even here the whole thing is
#> a single phonological word, and a phrase within a word
#> is not possible: *"fan-well-i'll-be-damned-tastic", so it looks more
#> like two stems blended into a single phonological word.
#
#Good. This suggests that expletive infixation is morphological and
#not syntactic. Therefore, it gives rise to a single word.
Certainly a single phonological word. There may or may not be
two separate syntactic words. Incorporating and polysynthetic
lgs will provide exx of separate syntactic words forming one
phonological word (& I can provide many more more controversial
exx from English), but none of these will involve several
phonological words within one discontinuous phonological
word or several syntactic words within one discontinuous
syntacticword.
--And.
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