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What Is a Written Word? And if So, How Many?
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Abstract. The linguistic unit word seems to be an intuitive notion for language users. However, linguists have failed so far to provide a uniform definition of that unit. Instead, there are definitions pertaining to different subsystems of language. In this paper, we will discuss how we can define the unit word in writing. We will start by examining definitions of the graphematic word in alphabetical writing systems such as German and English. We will then discuss how the written word relates to other suprasegmental units in writing systems, such as the syllable and the foot, and to which spoken unit or units a written word corresponds to. Finally, we will show that the discussed definitions of the graphematic word are not employable universally since in alphabetical writing systems definitions of the graphematic word pertain to interword spacing. By examining the Chinese and Japanese writing systems as examples, we will try to explain why these writing systems do not mark words by spaces and discuss whether there are graphematic words in these writing systems. Based on these considerations we will provide a tentative universal definition of graphematic words.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-ever


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Martin Evertz-Rittich (2020), “What Is a Written Word? And if So, How Many?,” in Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020 (Yannis Haralambous, Ed.), Grapholinguistics and Its Applications, Vol. 4, Brest: Fluxus Editions, 25–45.


@INPROCEEDINGS{gla4-ever,
   AUTHOR = {Martin Evertz-Rittich},
   EDITOR = {Haralambous, Yannis},
   TITLE = {{What Is a Written Word? And if So, How Many?}},
   BOOKTITLE = {{Proceedings of Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, 2020}},
   SERIES = {{Grapholinguistics and Its Applications}},
   VOLUME = {4},
   PUBLISHER = {Fluxus Editions},
   ADDRESS = {Brest},
   YEAR = {2020},
   PAGES = {25--45},
   DOI = {https://doi.org/10.36824/2020-graf-ever},
}