Editing Word (section)

===Semantics===
[[Leonard Bloomfield]] introduced the concept of "Minimal Free Forms" in 1928. Words are thought of as the smallest meaningful unit of [[speech]] that can stand by themselves.<ref name=Katamba2005>{{Cite book |last=Katamba |first=Francis |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54001244 |title=English words: structure, history, usage |date=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-29892-X |edition=2nd |location=London |oclc=54001244}}</ref>{{rp|11}} This correlates phonemes (units of sound) to [[lexeme]]s (units of meaning). However, some written words are not minimal free forms as they make no sense by themselves (for example, ''the'' and ''of'').<ref name=Fleming2003>{{Cite book |last1=Fleming |first1=Michael |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134568512 |title=Meeting the Standards in Secondary English |last2=Hardman |first2=Frank |last3=Stevens |first3=David |last4=Williamson |first4=John |date=2003-09-02 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-56851-2 |edition=1st |language=en |doi=10.4324/9780203165553}}</ref>{{rp|77}} Some semanticists have put forward a theory of so-called semantic primitives or [[semantic primes]], indefinable words representing fundamental concepts that are intuitively meaningful. According to this theory, semantic primes serve as the basis for describing the meaning, without circularity, of other words and their associated conceptual denotations.<ref name=Wierzbicka1996>{{Cite book |last=Wierzbicka |first=Anna |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33012927 |title=Semantics : primes and universals |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-870002-4 |location=Oxford [England] |oclc=33012927}}</ref><ref name=Goddard2002>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752499720 |title=Meaning and universal grammar. Volume II: theory and empirical findings |chapter=The search for the shared semantic core of all languages. |date=2002 |publisher=John Benjamins Pub. Co |others=Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka |isbn=1-58811-264-0 |location=Amsterdam |oclc=752499720}}</ref>