Eintrag

Titel

Issues of Modern Greek and German Compounding. A contrastive approach

Personen

Maria Koliopoulou

Jahr

2013

Typ

Hochschulschrift

Verlag

University of Patras

Ort

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Griechisch

Schlagwörter

Komposition
Kontrastiv

Abstract

This thesis belongs to the field of contrastive morphology: it examines the morphological process of compounding in Modern Greek and German, two languages which share many common morphological features and in which the specific phenomenon is especially productive. In more detail, the topics examined are the following: a) the structural features of the so called 'prototypical compounds' in contrast to the 'borderline cases', where the process of derivation is also involved in their formation, b) the appearance of the linking element and c) the formation of different types of compounds as for example the exocentric and the copulative ones. The theoretical framework adopted is that of generative morphology. The main conclusions of the thesis concern the definition of parameters that can explain the differences in the formation of compounds in these two languages. The most important parameters that determine the basic differences in the formation of Modern Greek and German compounds are a) the stem vs. word-based morphology and b) the rich vs. limited nominal inflectional paradigms. Through this contrastive analysis various new outcomes came into light concerning special issues in the process of compounding of these two languages, as for instance the morphological status of the linking element in German, the type of head that the German exocentric compounds display and the morphological features of the nominal copulative compounds in Modern Greek.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/81427