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Wikipedia discussion/evaluation assignment 2
Topic Idea - Compound

“Talk Page” assignment: Compound
1.	The level of importance that was assigned to this topic is mid- importance. The class level of this article is C-class. I think the reason for this grade is that there are things that are missing, as well as things that do not make sense. There also seem to be things that do not belong and do not add to the consistency of the article. 2.	One of the main focus of the comments was definition. Many people commented that the definition used to define a compound was problematic. People also felt that the examples from different languages were, made the read a little confusing. There were also comments that talked about the examples used for the different types of compounds, such as, verb-verb compounds and noun-verb compounds. Another issue was, what exactly constitutes as a compound and once you decided that how should it be written out. 3.	This article had a big discussion regarding the definition of a compound. Where the article says its “more than one free morpheme” someone disagrees. They say that a compound can be seen as a word that is written as two words. Then goes on to ask what pairs of words actually constitute a compound. Someone responds by saying that we should use the definition of compound from a more reliable source. Another person then comments that a compound is not seen as one word rather two words. Later goes on to give us a better definition of compounding: ‘the formation of a new base by combing two bases’. There seems to be a resolution where everyone agrees that the author of this article did not chose a good definition of what a compound was. Where a compound is not one word but two. There is another discussion that takes place where verb-verb compounds are discussed. They start off by saying words that they feel should have been mentioned in the section and someone replies by saying they are more noun-verb compounds. Another person posts in this section but they do not add to this conversation, rather address the article as a whole. I do not think there was a resolution to this discussion. The two compounds in question were ‘sleepwalk’ and ‘playfight’ and I think that they are verb-verb compounds. 4.	We discussed compounds in class, specifically English compounds. I think how we discussed it in class helped me follow the discussion and the parts of the article that were about English compounds. It specifically helped me follow the discussion regarding the definition because I knew what a lexeme was. There was also talk of types of compounds we didn't discuss in class, such as, copulative and appositional. In class we also discussed attributive, coordinating and subordinative compounds, where the article did not. 5.	I think that the discussion that was talking about the definition of what a compound was, was the most convincing. In that the author of the article should have put a definition from a more reliable source. It would most likely depend on how a compound word is written to be able to say whether is constitutes as one lexeme or two. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elisa1201 (talk • contribs) 23:58, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia discussion/evaluation assignment
back formation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation