Compound: univerbation
| Values: | Yes |
This is a binary (yes/no) morphological feature that is only annotated when its value is Yes.
Yes: univerbation of two or more words
When two or more otherwise independent words (i.e. not considering clitics or bound morphemes) have become fused and crystallised into a single word that is no more the “sum of its parts”, and this word is set down as such in writing, the corresponding token is marked with Compound=Yes.
The single components have to be still discernible and to have an independent counterpart: words which are compounds from an etymological point of view but are synchronically no longer recognizable as such, or processes of derivational morphology, are not taken into account for this feature. Often, the components appear in some reduced form.
Depending on the source, two (or more) words which act as a single unit may appear separate in writing: in this case, the actual univerbation is represented by the dependency relation fixed. Conversely, it would be moot to split a token with Compound=Yes only to link the resulting components by means of fixed.
Examples
- scilicet ‘it is obvious; that is’, from scio ‘to know’ and licet ‘it is allowed’; acting in Late Latin as an explicative conjunction
- idest ‘that is’, from id ‘it’ and est ‘is’, form of sum ‘to be’; a phrase which, like scilicet, ultimately became an explicative conjunction
- one often finds this expression written separately as id est, or abbreviated as i.e.: in such cases,
fixedis used
- one often finds this expression written separately as id est, or abbreviated as i.e.: in such cases,
- animaduerto ‘to give attention to’, from anima ‘soul’ and aduerto ‘to turn to’
Compound in other languages: [la] [ro] [sa] [yrl]