... the italicized words in (13) and think about the question whether kicks in (13a), drinking in (13b), or students in (13c) should be regarded as ‘new words’ in the sense of our definition a She ... other words in (5) If we assume that in- is a prefix meaning in, into’ we would predict that infer would mean ‘carry into’, which is not even close to the real meaning of infer The meaning of ... the kind of situation we find with many morphemes, be they bound or free For instance, the definite and indefinite articles in English take on different shapes, depending on the kind of word...