Abstract
The paper defends the view that in highly flective languages, the tendency to adopt two problematical concepts -- the concept of a word and the concept of fiction -- can be both explained with the use of a single notion: the impression of speakers that certain units or wholes are "well wrought". The awareness of fictionality is anchored in an awareness of the flective syntax which, due to its informational redundancy, exhibits its inner mutual connections.
An awareness of the word, as a general unit, is anchored in an awareness of morphological syntax as representative of the mutual connectibility of various derivative systems.