Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding

Name: Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding
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Sergio Scalise Irene Vogel(Editor)

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Published on 28. April 2010

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Cross-Disciplinary Issues in Compounding
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Why compounding?
1. Introduction
2. The interest of compounds
3. Where are compounds formed?
4. Definition of compound
5. Classification of compounds
6. Headedness
7. Exocentricity
8. Lexical categories
9. Input, output and combination of categories
10. Conclusion
11. Summary of book chapters
Part I. Delimiting the field
The role of syntax and morphology in compounding
1. Is syntax involved in compounding?
2. The structure of synthetic compounds
3. The effects of competition
4. The effects of mapping
5. Synthetic compounds in Saramaccan
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Constraints on compounds and incorporation
1. Introduction
2. The constructions
3. Internal structure
4. Transitivity and argument structure
5. The no phrase constraint and syntactically complex constituents
6. The lexical integrity hypothesis and sublexical reference
7. Wordhood
8. Frequency and productivity
9. Lexicalization and institutionalization
10. Conclusion
Compounding versus derivation
1. The issue - previous literature
2. Order of application between derivation and compounding
3. Prefixization and the role of dialectal evidence
4. Conclusions
Part II. At the core of compounding
Units in compounding
1. Introduction
2. Units in compounding: An overview
3. Are compounds words?
4. Are compounds made of words?
5. Conclusion
Compound construction: Schemas or analogy?
1. Introduction: Rule or analogy?
2. Semantic subpatterns in compounding
3. Headedness variation
4. From compounding to derivation
5. Allomorphy
6. Analogy or schema?
The head in compounding
1. Preliminary notions: Introducing heads of compounds
2. The properties of compound heads
3. Problems in the identification of heads: Multiple heads and exocentricity
4. Different kinds of heads?
5. Conclusions and final remarks
On the lexical semantics of compounds
1. Introduction
2. Non-affixal (de)verbal compounds
3. A digression on the analysis of verb to noun conversion
4. An analysis
5. The classification of compounds
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
The phonology of compounds
1. Introduction
2. Phonological phenomena and the members of compounds
3. Compounds and the recursive phonological word
4. Phonological constituent structure of compounds
5. Other types of compound structures
6. Other phenomena
7. Conclusions
Part III. Typology and types of compounds
The typology of exocentric compounding
1. Introduction
2. Bahuvrihi
3. Synthetic
4. Transpositional
5. Exocentric co-compounds
6. Metaphorical
7. Exocentrics as exceptions
8. Conclusion
Coordination in compounding
1. Introduction
2. The typological approach to co-compounds
3. Coordination in NN compounds in East and South-East Asia
4. Hyponymic coordinating compounds and the SAE area
5. Reference and number in NN coordinating compounds
6. Conclusion
Parasynthetic compounds
1. Introduction
2. Parasynthesis in compounding
3. Recent accounts of (para-)synthetic compounds
4. Parasynthesis in Slavic
5. Parasynthesis in Romance languages
6. Conclusions
Synthetic compounds
1. Introduction
2. Incorporation in German?
3. Lexical derivation and subsequent compounding
4. Lexical derivation via suffixation of a word group
5. Conclusion
Corpus data and theoretical implications
1. Introduction
2. The corpus
3. Overall data on VN formation: Some comparisons with derivation
4. The scarcity of verb bases and the role of restrictions
5. Corpus data and the Unitary Output Hypothesis
Part IV. Quantitative and psycholinguistic aspects of compounding
Frequency effects in compound processing
1. Introduction
2. Lexical decision and naming latencies
3. The eye-tracking record
4. General discussion
Computational issues in compound processing
1. Introduction
2. Parsing issues: a bird's eye view
3. Interpreting NN compounds
4. Discussion
Acknowledgments
Relational competition during compound interpretation
1. Introduction
2. Evidence for the use of relational structures
3. The nature of the relation priming effect
4. Access to relational information is dependent on the constituent's morphological role
5. Theoretical framework
6. Concluding remarks
Sign languages and compounding
1. Introduction
2. Modality
2. Language age: Compounding in a new language
3. Conclusion
Appendix
Acknowledgements
First language acquisition of compounds
1. Introduction
2. German compound formation
3. The data
4. 3 phases of language acquisition
5. Emergence of composition
6. Amalgams
7. Compound noun developments up to 3
0
8. Frequency distributions in Lena's and Jan's compound noun development 1
7 - 3
0
9. Order of emergence
10. Productivity
11. Emergence of interfixed compounds
12. Phrases vs. compounds
13. Morphotactic transparency
14. Morphosemantic transparency
15. Clark's principles of conventionality and contrast
16. Morpheme order
17. Recursivity
18. Typology
19. Innate universals?
20. Natural morphology
21. Conclusions
List of abbreviations
Master list of references
Language index
Subject index
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