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41.1 Introduction 41.1 Introduction
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41.2 What counts as a word (in puzzling)? 41.2 What counts as a word (in puzzling)?
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41.2.1 Word and morpheme 41.2.1 Word and morpheme
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41.2.2 Compounding 41.2.2 Compounding
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41.3 What counts as puzzling (in word puzzling)? 41.3 What counts as puzzling (in word puzzling)?
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41.3.1 Knowledge 41.3.1 Knowledge
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41.3.2 Ingenuity 41.3.2 Ingenuity
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41.3.3 The sense of beauty 41.3.3 The sense of beauty
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41.4 Flats, forms, and crosswords 41.4 Flats, forms, and crosswords
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41.5 Comparing the English and the Dutch crossword 41.5 Comparing the English and the Dutch crossword
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41.5.1 Some history 41.5.1 Some history
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41.5.2 Diverging developments 41.5.2 Diverging developments
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41.5.3 Cryptogrammar 41.5.3 Cryptogrammar
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41.5.4 Semantic relations between clue and answer 41.5.4 Semantic relations between clue and answer
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41.5.5 Associations 41.5.5 Associations
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41.5.6 Cryptotypes 41.5.6 Cryptotypes
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41.5.7 The real difference 41.5.7 The real difference
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41.6 Conclusion 41.6 Conclusion
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41 Word Puzzles
Get accessHenk J. Verkuyl is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Utrecht University. His main research interest has been the semantics of tense and aspect, resulting in work including On the Compositional Nature of the Aspects (1972), A Theory of Aspectuality (1993), Aspectual Issues (1999), and Binary Tense (2008). He is one of the authors hiding behind the pseudonym L. T. F. Gamut in Logic, Language and Meaning (1992). He also hides behind the pseudonym Dr. Verschuyl (lit. Dr. Hyde; the Dutch verb verschuilen = hide in English) with his Cryptogrammatica, a booklet about the linguistic principles of the crossword; see the chapter 'Word Puzzles' in the Oxford University Press Handbook of the Word (ed. John R. Taylor).
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Published:01 April 2014
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the challenge of solving a problem concerning a linguistic form with knowledge, ingenuity, and a sense of beauty as guides. Word puzzles generally use letters as basic elements rather than sound units, most of them being presented in a written or some other visual form. So the question arises: what is the linguistic part of word puzzles? The written form of a word puzzle does not make it an orthographic game, because what is at stake is a person’s knowledge of words. This means that the domain of word puzzling is of interest to lexical semanticists, as it appears to shed light on how the notion of word is being used by native speakers of languages with different orthographic conventions for writing compounds. The huge difference between the English cryptic crossword (playing with forms) and its Dutch counterpart (playing with semantics) can be explained in these terms.
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