Further Investigations into the Nature of Phrasal Compounding

Carola Trips, Jaklin Kornfilt

• Publisher: Language Science Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783961100125
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This collection of papers on phrasal compounding is part of a bigger project whose aims are twofold: First, it seeks to broaden the typological perspective by providing data for as many different languages as possible to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon itself. Second, based on these data which clearly show interaction between syntax and morphology it aims to discuss theoretical models which deal with this kind of interaction in different ways. Models like Generative Grammar assume components of grammar and a clear-cut distinction between the lexicon (often including morphology) and grammar. Other models, like construction grammar, do not assume such components and are rather based on a lexicon including constructs. A comparison of these models on the basis of this phenomenon on the morphology-syntax interface makes it possible to assess their descriptive and explanatory power.

Table of contents

• Contents
• 1 Further insights into phrasal compoundingCarola Trips & Jaklin Kornfilt
• 2 Phrasal compounds in Modern Icelandic with reference to Icelandic word formation in generalKristín Bjarnadóttir
• 3 Compounding in Polish and the absence of phrasal compoundingBogdan Szymanek
• 4 On a subclass of nominal compounds in Bulgarian: The nature of phrasal compoundsAlexandra Bagasheva
• 5 Modeling the properties of German phrasal compounds within a usage-based constructional approachKatrin Hein
• 6 Phrasal compounds in JapaneseKunio Nishiyama
• 7 Copying compound structures: The case of Pharasiot GreekMetin Bağrıaçık, Aslı Göksel & Angela Ralli
• 8 Phrasal compounds and the morphology-syntax relationJürgen Pafel
• Index