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Adjectives, Compounds, and Words

Author(s) -

Laurie Bauer

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

nordic journal of english studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 1654-6970

pISSN - 1502-7694

DOI - 10.35360/njes.18

Subject(s) - linguistics , field (mathematics) , english language , political science , english studies , order (exchange) , history , media studies , sociology , library science , philosophy , computer science , business , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics

Linguists take as given the primacy of the spoken word and the derivative nature of written language. We are aware of absurdities like those mentioned above, but see them as being artifacts of the spelling system and dismiss them as being of marginal relevance to the structure of English. Yet at other times we seem to have great difficulty in discarding the idea that English orthography tells us something important about the language. In this paper1 I should like to discuss one such instance.

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