Word constituents
The term word constituents (often also simply shortened to constituents ) describes the morphological (= smallest meaningful) components from which words are built. These can consist of just one morph / morpheme or a combination of them. Simple words ( Simplizia ) like "Bach", "Hut" and "Weg" consist of only one morpheme and thus of one word constituent. Complex words such as “lawyer”, “desk” or “university papers” consist of several morphemes that can be word constituents either individually or in combination with one another. Word formation is the main focus of building complex words from constituents ; but also inflected endings are constituents of words.
example
The word “desk” consists of two word constituents, which are also morphemes / morphemes: “writing” and “table”. The word "word research" also consists of two word constituents: "word" and "research". "Word" is again a morph / morpheme; “Research”, on the other hand, is a word constituent which in turn consists of two constituents, which are themselves morphemes / morphemes: from the verb stem “forsch-” and the word formation morph “-ung”. The IC analysis works out word constituents of the various levels of analysis .
literature
- Duden. The grammar. 7th, completely new and expanded edition. Dudenverlag: Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2005, chap. “The types of word formation”, p. 668ff. ISBN 3-411-04047-5
