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Could someone please advise me of a single word for «A number of concepts that are embraced into a whole». If there is no such word, a few ideas would be appreciated.
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Clive
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Could someone please advise me of a single word for «A number of concepts that are embraced into a whole». If there is no such word, a few ideas would be appreciated.
Regards,
Clive
It could be dogma, lemmata, …
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Is this possible for a single word to be a phrase? In other words, is a phrase always made up of two or more than two words?
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Jackson6612Is this possible for a single word to be a phrase?
Yes.
And YES is also a complete sentence — right Yankee? 
Hoa Thai
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Right. «Yes» is a complete thought in the context and thus a complete sentence.
I do understand Jackson’s question, though. When people think of the word phrase, they usually think of something consisting of two or more words.
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YankeeRight.
Hi Amy,
I always knew you were a genius.
Best wishes, Jackson
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YankeeRight.
Hi Amy,
I always knew you were a genius. The fact is sometimes I don’t understand my own questions which I posted long ago.
Best wishes, Jackson
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Do you have a specific example? I THINK that a phrase tecnically is a group of words that does not contain a subject or a verb.
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AnonymousI THINK that a phrase tecnically is a group of words that does not contain a subject or a verb.
But then there could be no such thing as a verb phrase, because all verb phrases contain verbs, and grammarians talk about verb phrases all the time!!!
I think you may need to go back to the drawing board and rethink that definition!
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A sentence word (also called a one-word sentence) is a single word that forms a full sentence.
Henry Sweet described sentence words as ‘an area under one’s control’ and gave words such as «Come!», «John!», «Alas!», «Yes.» and «No.» as examples of sentence words.[1] The Dutch linguist J. M. Hoogvliet described sentence words as «volzinwoorden».[2] They were also noted in 1891 by Georg von der Gabelentz, whose observations were extensively elaborated by Hoogvliet in 1903; he does not list «Yes.» and «No.» as sentence words. Wegener called sentence words «Wortsätze».[3]
Single-word utterances and child language acquisition[edit]
One of the predominant questions concerning children and language acquisition deals with the relation between the perception and the production of a child’s word usage. It is difficult to understand what a child understands about the words that they are using and what the desired outcome or goal of the utterance should be.[4]
Holophrases are defined as a «single-word utterance which is used by a child to express more than one meaning usually attributed to that single word by adults.»[5] The holophrastic hypothesis argues that children use single words to refer to different meanings in the same way an adult would represent those meanings by using an entire sentence or phrase. There are two opposing hypotheses as to whether holophrases are structural or functional in children. The two hypotheses are outlined below.
Structural holophrastic hypothesis[edit]
The structural version argues that children’s “single word utterances are implicit expressions of syntactic and semantic structural relations.” There are three arguments used to account for the structural version of the holophrastic hypothesis: The comprehension argument, the temporal proximity argument, and the progressive acquisition argument.[5]
- The comprehension argument is based on the idea that comprehension in children is more advanced than production throughout language acquisition. Structuralists believe that children have knowledge of sentence structure but they are unable to express it due to a limited lexicon. For example, saying “Ball!” could mean “Throw me the ball” which would have the structural relation of the subject of the verb. However, studies attempting to show the extent to which children understand syntactic structural relation, particularly during the one-word stage, end up showing that children “are capable of extracting the lexical information from a multi-word command,” and that they “can respond correctly to a multi-word command if that command is unambiguous at the lexical level.”[5] This argument therefore does not provide evidence needed to prove the structural version of the holophrastic hypothesis because it fails to prove that children in the single-word stage understand structural relations such as the subject of a sentence and the object of a verb.[5]
- The temporal proximity argument is based on the observation that children produce utterances referring to the same thing, close to each other. Even the utterances aren’t connected, it is argued that children know about the linguistic relationships between the words, but cannot connect them yet.[5] An example is laid out below:
→ Child: «Daddy» (holding pair of fathers pants)
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- «Bai» (‘bai’ is the term the child uses for any item of clothing)
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The usage of ‘Daddy’ and ‘Bai’ used in close proximity are seen to represent a child’s knowledge of linguistic relations; in this case the relation is the ‘possessive’.[6] This argument is seen as having insufficient evidence as it is possible that the child is only switching from one way to conceptualize pants to another. It is also pointed out that if the child had knowledge of linguistic relationships between words, then the child would combine the words together, instead of using them separately.[5]
- Finally, the last argument in support of structuralism is the progressive acquisition argument. This argument states that children progressively gain new structural relations throughout the holophrastic stage. This is also unsupported by the research.[5]
Functional holophrastic hypothesis[edit]
Functionalists doubt whether children really have structural knowledge, and argue that children rely on gestures to carry meaning (such as declarative, interrogative, exclamative or vocative). There are three arguments used to account for the functional version of the holophrastic hypothesis: The intonation argument, the gesture argument, and the predication argument.[5]
- The intonation argument suggests that children use intonation in a contrastive way. Researchers have established through longitudinal studies that children have knowledge of intonation and can use it to communicate a specific function across utterances.[7][8][9] Compare the two examples below:
→ Child: «Ball.» (flat intonation) — Can mean «That is a ball.»
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- → Child: «Ball?» (rising inflection) — Can mean «Where is the ball?»
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- However, it has been noted by Lois Bloom that there is no evidence that a child intends for intonation to be contrastive, it is only that adults are able to interpret it as such.[10] Martyn Barrett contrasts this with a longitudinal study performed by him, where he illustrated the acquisition of a rising inflection by a girl who was a year and a half old. Although she started out using intonation randomly, upon acquisition of the term «What’s that» she began to use rising intonation exclusively for questions, suggesting knowledge of its contrastive usage.[11]
- The gesture argument establishes that some children use gesture instead of intonation contrastively. Compare the two examples laid out below:
→ Child: «Milk.» (points at milk jug) — could mean “That is milk.”
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- → Child: «Milk.» (open-handed gesture while reaching for a glass of milk) — could mean “I want milk.”
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- Each use of the word ‘milk’ in the examples above could have no use of intonation, or a random use of intonation, and so meaning is reliant on gesture. Anne Carter observed, however, that in the early stages of word acquisition children use gestures primarily to communicate, with words merely serving to intensify the message.[12] As children move onto multi-word speech, content and context are also used alongside gesture.
- The predication argument suggests that there are three distinct functions of single word utterances, ‘Conative’, which is used to direct the behaviour of oneself or others; ‘Expressive’, which is used to express emotion; and referential, which is used to refer to things.[13] The idea is that holophrases are predications, which is defined as the relationship between a subject and a predicate. Although McNeill originally intended this argument to support the structural hypothesis, Barrett believes that it more accurately supports the functional hypothesis, as McNeill fails to provide evidence that predication is expressed in holophrases.[5]
Single-word utterances and adult usage[edit]
While children use sentence words as a default strategy due to lack of syntax and lexicon, adults tend to use sentence words in a more specialized way, generally in a specific context or to convey a certain meaning. Because of this distinction, single word utterances in children are called ‘holophrases’, while in adults, they are called ‘sentence words’. In both the child and adult use of sentence words, context is very important and relative to the word chosen, and the intended meaning.
Sentence word formation[edit]
Many sentence words have formed from the process of devaluation and semantic erosion. Various phrases in various languages have devolved into the words for «yes» and «no» (which can be found discussed in detail in yes and no), and these include expletive sentence words such as «Well!» and the French word «Ben!» (a parallel to «Bien!»).[14]
However, not all word sentences suffer from this loss of lexical meaning. A subset of sentence words, which Fonagy calls «nominal phrases», exist that retain their lexical meaning. These exist in Uralic languages, and are the remainders of an archaic syntax wherein there were no explicit markers for nouns and verbs. An example of this is the Hungarian language «Fecske!», which transliterates as «Swallow!», but which has to be idiomatically translated with multiple words «Look! A swallow!» for rendering the proper meaning of the original, which to a native Hungarian speaker is neither elliptical nor emphatic. Such nominal phrase word sentences occur in English as well, particularly in telegraphese or as the rote questions that are posed to fill in form data (e.g. «Name?», «Age?»).[14]
Sentence word syntax[edit]
A sentence word involves invisible covert syntax and visible overt syntax. The invisible section or «covert» is the syntax that is removed in order to form a one word sentence. The visible section or «overt» is the syntax that still remains in a sentence word.[15] Within sentence word syntax there are 4 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), and imperative (a command).
| Overt | Covert | |
|---|---|---|
| Declarative | ‘That is excellent!’
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‘Excellent!’
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| Exclamative | ‘That was rude!’
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‘Rude!’
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| Vocative | ‘There is Mary!’
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‘Mary!’
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| Imperative | ‘You should leave!’
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‘Leave!’
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| Locative | ‘The chair is here.’
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‘Here.’
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| Interrogative | ‘Where is it?’
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‘Where?’
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The words in bold above demonstrate that in the overt syntax structures, there are words that can be omitted in order to form a covert sentence word.
Distribution cross-linguistically[edit]
Other languages use sentence words as well.
- In Japanese, a holophrastic or single-word sentence is meant to carry the least amount of information as syntactically possible, while intonation becomes the primary carrier of meaning.[16] For example, a person saying the Japanese word e.g. «はい» (/haɪ/) = ‘yes’ on a high level pitch would command attention. Pronouncing the same word using a mid tone, could represent an answer to a roll-call. Finally, pronouncing this word with a low pitch could signify acquiescence: acceptance of something reluctantly.[16]
| High tone pitch | Mid tone pitch | Low tone pitch |
|---|---|---|
| Command attention | Represent an answer to roll-call | Signify acquiescence acceptance of something reluctantly |
- Modern Hebrew also exhibits examples of sentence words in its language, e.g. «.חַם» (/χam/) = «It is hot.» or «.קַר» (/kar/) = «It is cold.».
References[edit]
- ^ Henry Sweet (1900). «Adverbs». A New English Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 127. ISBN 978-1-4021-5375-4.
- ^ Jan Noordegraaf (2001). «J. M. Hoogvliet as a teacher and theoretician». In Marcel Bax; C. Jan-Wouter Zwart; A. J. van Essen (eds.). Reflections on Language and Language Learning. John Benjamins B.V. p. 24. ISBN 978-90-272-2584-9.
- ^ Giorgio Graffi (2001). 200 Years of Syntax. John Benjamins B.V. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-58811-052-7.
- ^ Hoff, Erika (2009). Language Development. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. p. 167.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Barrett, Martyn, D. (1982). «The holophrastic hypothesis: Conceptual and empirical issues». Cognition. 11: 47–76. doi:10.1016/0010-0277(82)90004-x.
- ^ Rodgon, M.M. (1976). Single word usage, cognitive development and the beginnings of combinatorial speech. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Dore, J. (1975). «Holophrases, speech acts and language universals». Journal of Child Language. 2: 21–40. doi:10.1017/s0305000900000878.
- ^ Leopold, W.F. (1939). Speech Development of a Bilingual Child: A Linguist’s Record. Volume 1: Vocabulary growth in the first two years. Evanston, ill: Northwestern University Press.
- ^ Von Raffler Engel, W. (1973). «The development from sound to phoneme in child language». Studies of Child Language Development.
- ^ Bloom, Lois (1973). One word at a time: The use of single word utterances before syntax. The Hague: Mouton.
- ^ Barrett, M.D (1979). Semantic Development during the Single-Word Stage of Language Acquisition (Unpublished doctoral thesis).
- ^ Carter, Anne :L. (1979). «Prespeech meaning relations an outline of one infant’s sensorimotor morpheme development». Language Acquisition: 71–92.
- ^ David, McNeill (1970). The Acquisition of Language: The Study of Developmental Psycholinguistics.
- ^ a b Ivan Fonagy (2001). Languages Within Language. John Benjamins B.V. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-927232-82-1.
- ^ Carnie, Andrew (2012). Syntax: a generative introduction. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 496.
- ^ a b Hirst, D. (1998). Intonation systems: a survey of twenty languages. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 372.
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On this page I’ve collected a comprehensive list of single word palindromes.
In the spirit of ‘single word’ I’ve decided to exclude from this list any palindromic phrases, proper nouns, or hyphenated forms, even though you will encounter these sorts of palindromes in crosswords and other puzzles from time to time.
Unfortunately, this policy means that my page must omit some palindromic gems, like…
- AMANAPLANACANALPANAMA — probably the most oft’ quoted palindrome of all time, but a phrase nonetheless,
- MALAYALAM — the Dravidian language of Kerala, and hence a proper noun, and
- RACECAR — a neat word, but strictly a hyphenated form.
…which was, of course, just an excuse to mention them after all 
On the other hand, a pleasant result of these strict criteria is that every word in the list is allowed in Scrabble! Well, if your adjudicator is the Official International Scrabble Dictionary at least.
Finally, since palindromes of four letters or less are a dime a dozen, I’ve only included words that are at least five letters long.
And all this banter leaves us with the following single word palindromes…
- ALULA
- A part of a bird’s wing.
- ANANA
- The pineapple.
- CIVIC
- Pertaining to cities.
- DEKED
- From DEKE, to feint in hockey
- DELED
- From DELE, to delete.
- DERED
- From DERE, to injure.
- DEWED
- From DEW, to moisten.
- KAIAK
- A light canoe.
- KAYAK
- A light canoe.
- LEMEL
- Metal filings.
- LEVEL
- To even out.
- MADAM
- A term of address for a woman.
- MALAM
- A Muslim scholar.
- MINIM
- A musical note.
- RADAR
- A locating device.
- REFER
- To attribute to.
- ROTOR
- A rotating machine part.
- SAGAS
- From SAGA, a series of novels.
- SAMAS
- From SAMA, a Japanese title.
- SEDES
- A seat (Latin).
- SELES
- From SELE, good fortune.
- SEMES
- From SEME, an ornamental pattern.
- SERES
- From SERE, to burn the surface of.
- SEXES
- From SEX, gender.
- SHAHS
- From SHAH, an Iranian ruler.
- SIMIS
- From SIMI, a type of sword.
- SIRIS
- From SIRI, a climbing plant.
- SOLOS
- From SOLO, to perform alone.
- STATS
- From STAT, a statistic.
- STETS
- From STET, to cancel a printing correction.
- STOTS
- From STOT, to bounce.
- SULUS
- From SULU, a Melanesian skirt.
- SUSUS
- From SUSU, a group savings scheme.
- TENET
- A principle.
- TOROT
- The body of Jewish law.
- ARAARA
- A type of fish.
- ATAATA
- A marine gastropod.
- DEGGED
- From DEG, to water plants.
- DENNED
- From DEN, to retire to a lair.
- HAJJAH
- A Muslim woman who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
- HALLAH
- A type of bread.
- MALLAM
- An African teacher.
- MARRAM
- A type of grass.
- PULLUP
- A body-lifting movement.
- REDDER
- More red.
- SELLES
- From SELLE, a saddle.
- SERRES
- From SERRE, to press close.
- SESSES
- From SESS, a tax.
- SUCCUS
- Animal or plant secretion.
- TALLAT
- A loft.
- TERRET
- A swivel-ring.
- TIRRIT
- Fright (Shakesp.)
- DEIFIED
- From DEIFY, to revere as a god.
- HADEDAH
- A type of bird.
- HALALAH
- A Saudi Arabian monetary unit.
- REIFIER
- From REIFY, to materialize.
- REPAPER
- To paper again.
- REVIVER
- One who revives.
- ROTATOR
- Something that rotates.
- SEITIES
- From SEITY, personal identity.
- SEMEMES
- From SEMEME, a unit of meaning.
- ROTAVATOR
- A soil-tilling machine.
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