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3 How can we identify a compound?

Morphemes or stems/roots are simple words already, for example rail and way. But railway is regarded as a simple word as well. How can we distinguish a compound from a single word for example? We have to find rules to do that.



Dafydd Gibbon
Thu Jun 13 17:33:32 MET DST 1996