自考英语词汇学学习资料
Chapter one
The definition of Word: (the two often quoted definitions from Bloomfield and an outstanding French linguist, Antoine Meillet. )
Bloomfield: “some linguistic forms, which we call bound forms are never used as sentences. A word then, is a free form which does not consist entirely of (two or more) lesser free forms. In belief, a word is a minimum free form.”