Eintrag

Titel

The Oxford Handbook of Compounding

Personen

Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Štekauer

Jahr

2009

Typ

Sammelband

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Ort

Oxford

Reihe

Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics

Sprache(n)

Verschiedene

Schlagwörter

Komposition
Wortbildung

Beiträge

• Neef: IE, Germanic: German

Abstract

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families. Compounding is an effective way to create and express new meanings. Compound words are segmentable into their constituents so that new items can often be understood on first presentation. However, as keystone, keynote, and keyboard, and breadboard, sandwich-board, and mortarboard show, the relation between components is often far from straightforward. The question then arises, as to how far compound sequences are analysed at each encounter and how far they are stored in the brain as single lexical items? The nature and processing of compounds thus offer an unusually direct route to how language operates in the mind, as well as providing the means of investigating important aspects of morphology, and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisition and the organization of the mental lexicon. This book is the first to report on the state of the art on these and other central topics, including the classification and typology of compounds, and cross-linguistic research on the subject in different frameworks and from synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

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