Cross-disciplinary issues in compounding
By: edited by Sergio Scalise, Irene Vogel.
Contributors: Scalise, Sergio.; Vogel, Irene, 1952-
Series: Current issues in linguistic theory -- v. 311
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company; John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9789027248275; 9789027290892
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Compound words
Description: 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 ù spoken and signed. The fact that compound constructions are at the interface of the various components of language ù morphology, syntax, phonology, and semantics ù 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. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Why compounding? / Sergio Scalise and Irene Vogel; title: Part I. Delimiting the field: The role of syntax and morphology in compounding / Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman; title: Constraints on compounds and incorporation / Marianne Mithun; title: Compounding versus derivation / Angela Ralli; title: Part II. At the core of compounding: Units in compounding / Fabio Montermini; title: Compound construction: Schemas or analogy? A construction morphology perspective / Geert Booij; title: The head in compounding / Sergio Scalise and Antonio Fábregas; title: On the lexical semantics of compounds: Non-affixal (de)verbal compounds / Rochelle Lieber; title: The phonology of compounds / Irene Vogel; title: Part III. Typology and types of compounds: The typology of exocentric compounding / Laurie Bauer; title: Coordination in compounding / Giorgio F. Arcodia, Nicola Grandi and Bernhard Wälchli; title: Parasynthetic compounds: Data and theory / Chiara Melloni and Antonietta Bisetto; title: Synthetic compounds: With special reference to German / Livio Gaeta; title: Corpus data and theoretical implications: With special reference to Italian v-n compounds / Davide Ricca; title: Part IV. Quantitative and psycholinguitic aspects of compounding: Frequency effects in compound processing / R. Harald Baayen, Victor Kuperman and Raymond Bertram; title: Computational issues in compound processing / Vito Pirrelli, Emiliano Guevara and Marco Baroni; title: Relational competition during compound interpretation / Christina L. Gagné and Thomas L. Spalding; title: Sign languages and compounding / Irit Meir, Mark Aronoff, Wendy Sandler and Carol Padden; title: First language acquisition of compounds with special emphasis on early German child language / Wolfgang U. Dressler, Laura E. Lettner and Katharina Korecky-Kröll; title: List of abbreviations; title: Master list of references; title: Language index; title: Subject index.