
Words are notoriously difficult entities to define in either universal or language-specific terms.

a component indivisible into smaller segments as regards its nominative function) together with other nominative units the word is used for the formation of the sentence - a unit of information in the communication process. The word is a nominative unit of language it is formed by morphemes it enters the lexicon of language as its elementary component (i.e. General characteristics of functional words General characteristics of notional words

Relationships between words and morphemes
