Compound (definition)

Compounds are words made out of other already existing words. For example in English, we have blackboard, which is a compound made up of two already existing words: black and board.

See Also

• Morpheme (definition)

External Links

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

References

• Crystal, D. (2008) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Matthews, P. H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.