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 ofmorphology, and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisitionand 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. ÍNDICE: I; 1. Introduction: Status and Definition of Compounding; 2. Compounding and Idiomatology; 3. The Classification of Compounds; 4. Early Generative Approaches; 5. A Lexical Semantic Approach to Compounding; 6. Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics; 7. Compounding in Distributed Morphology; 8. Why are Compounds a Part of Human Language? A View from Asymmetry Theory; 9. Compounding and Lexicalism; 10. Compounding and Construction Morphology; 11. Compounding from an Onomasiological Perspective; 12. Compounding in Cognitive Linguistics; 13. Psycholinguistic Perspectives; 14. MeaningPredictability of Novel Context-free Compounds; 15. Children's Acquisition ofCompound Constructions; 16. Diachronic Perspectives; PART II; 17. Typology ofCompounds; 18. IE, Germanic: English; 19. IE, Germanic: Dutch; 20. IE, Germanic: German; 21. . IE, Germanic: Danish; 22. IE, Romance: French; 23. IE, Romance: Spanish; 24. IE, Hellenic: Modern Greek; 25. IE, Slavonic: Polish; 26. Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese; 27. Afro-Asiatic, Semitic: Hebrew; 28. Isolate: Japanese; 29. Uralic, Finno-Ugric: Hungarian; 30. Athapaskan: Slave; 31. Iroquoian: Mohawk; 32. Arawakan: Maipure-Yavitero; 33. Araucanian: Mapudungun; 34. Pama-Nyungan: Warlpiri; References; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-921987-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 712
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2009
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- Idioma: Inglés