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Manuscript of the book "Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R" by Emil Hvitfeldt and Julia Silge

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Linguistic terminology

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Hi Emil and Julia,

Big fan here. I am using this book with my graduate course 'Digital Text Analysis' at UT Austin.

I wanted to make a correction to your brief exposition on morphology in chapter 1, where you write

Danish words such as “brandbil” (fire truck), “politibil” (police car), and “lastbil” (truck) all contain the morpheme “bil” (car) and start with prefixes denoting the type of car.

Please note that brand-, politi-, etc. in these examples are not prefixes. Rather, brandbil and the other examples are (endocentric) noun-noun compounds.

A prefix is a bound morpheme that cannot be a word on its own, but in these compounds you have two potentially independent morphemes.

--Lars Hinrichs

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Thanks so much @wordsmith189! Would it be more accurate to say "start with morphemes denoting ..."?

commented

That is the most neutral way of stating what's going on, yes. It might be nicer to say "start with another morpheme (also originally a noun) which identifies a particular type of truck.
Thanks!!

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Thank you again @wordsmith189! FYI you won't see this on the rendered site until we rebuild it, a bit in the future from now.