... not dealing with affixes, but with bound roots, so that we are in fact talking about cases of compounding, and not of affixation. Speakers of English that are familiar with such words or even ... start with a complete list of all words that occur in the corpus, from which we must extract the words that are of interest to us. Again, we need a software program that can search for words with ... second problem with the orthographically defined word is that it may not always coincide with our intuitions. Thus, most of us would probably agree that girlfriend is a word (i.e. one word) which...