The role of A. I. Smirnitsky in the debate about the status of the word in twentieth-century linguistics (to the 120th anniversary of the birth)
https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2023-84-4-98-106
Abstract
The article analyses the role of A. I. Smirnitsky’s works on general linguistics in determining the status of the word as the central unit of the language system. I consider A. I. Smirnitsky’s ideas which are still relevant today. They concern the criteria for distinguishing between a word and a morpheme, a word and a phrase, a word and a phraseological unit, and so on based on the semantic and formal characteristics of the word. Combining certain features of other units of the language system, the word as the basic linguistic unit is at the intersection of vocabulary and word formation, morphology and syntax.
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O. A. Voloshina
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; MSU-BIT University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Oksana A. Voloshina, Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor
Moscow
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Voloshina O.A. The role of A. I. Smirnitsky in the debate about the status of the word in twentieth-century linguistics (to the 120th anniversary of the birth). Russian language at school. 2023;84(4):98-106. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2023-84-4-98-106
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