The study of compounds is currently at the center of attention in many areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. This volume brings together contributions by experts involved in a wide range of such areas, based on a large number of diverse languages – spoken and signed. The fact that compound constructions are at the interface of the various components of language – morphology, syntax, phonology, and semantics – makes them ideal testing grounds for models of grammatical architecture, as seen in a number of these chapters. The breadth and depth of the coverage of topics, as well as the unified bibliography, make this volume a basic reference source for those interested in current theoretical as well as experimental approaches to compounding, and thus to theoretical linguists as well as psycholinguists and researchers in related fields of cognitive science.
1. Acknowledgments;
2. Why compounding? (by Scalise, Sergio);
3. Section
1. Delimiting the field;
4. The role of syntax and morphology in compounding
(by Ackema, Peter);
5. Constraints on compounds and incorporation (by Mithun,
Marianne);
6. Compounding versus derivation (by Ralli, Angela);
7. Section
2.
At the core of compounding;
8. Units in compounding (by Montermini, Fabio);
9. Compound construction: Schemas or analogy?: A construction morphology
perspective (by Booij, Geert);
10. The head in compounding (by Scalise,
Sergio);
11. On the lexical semantics of compounds: Non-affixal (de)verbal
compounds (by Lieber, Rochelle);
12. The phonology of compounds (by Vogel,
Irene);
13. Section
3. Typology and types of compounds;
14. The typology of
exocentric compounding (by Bauer, Laurie);
15. Coordination in compounding
(by Arcodia, Giorgio F.);
16. Parasynthetic compounds: Data and theory (by
Melloni, Chiara);
17. Synthetic compounds: With special reference to German
(by Gaeta, Livio);
18. Corpus data and theoretical implications: With special
reference to Italian V-N compounds (by Ricca, Davide);
19. Section
4.
Quantitative and psycholinguistic aspects of compounding;
20. Frequency
effects in compound processing (by Baayen, R. H.);
21. Computational issues
in compound processing (by Pirrelli, Vito);
22. Relational competition during
compound interpretation (by Gagne, Christina L.);
23. Sign languages and
compounding (by Meir, Irit);
24. First language acquisition of compounds (by
Dressler, Wolfgang U.);
25. List of abbreviations;
26. Master list of
references;
27. Language index;
28. Subject index
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