Self-evaluation 03

If you run the word count on your computer, you are counting words as a , that is, every single orthographic word. If you were only taking into account different orthographic words, then we are talking about words as a , but this is only the tip of the iceberg regarding words.

There are many issues to consider when it comes to words. The first one is to identify if they are nouns or verbs, for instance, in other words, to know the to which they belong. The words carrying the meaning are called or lexical, and the ones that help to structure a sentence are called or grammatical words.

A second issue is comprised by word families, which are of a word (adding suffixes to the base form and keeping the same meaning) and (adding both suffixes and prefixes resulting into a different meaning). There are also other processes to form new words, such as (two or more words with a single meaning), (two words merging into one, losing some of their original letters), (same word, different grammatical function), and (the ‘short version’ of words).

A similar issue to compounding is , words which are classified according to how fixed and how idiomatic they are. Another related issue is , a different kind of word association based on how often words appear together. Yet, another kind of association between words is the , which groups words that relate to a certain topic or theme.

There is also the issue comprising the family of “–nyms”: , same form but different meanings; similar although hardly ever exactly the same meaning; , opposite meanings; , ‘a kind of’ word relation; and ‘a part of’ word relation.

And related to all these, there are also , which are words with the same form and several different but related meanings.

Finally, there is which deals with the formality, variety and register of a language, and : positive or negative possible meanings of the same word.