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- Title
Semantic structure and meaning within agentive nominal compounds: Evidence from French and Swedish.
- Authors
Rosenberg, Maria
- Abstract
This study addresses agentive nominal compounds in French and Swedish containing N and V constituents. French has only one such compound, VN, whereas Swedish has at least four, NV- are, NV- a, NV and VN. The study explores the semantic characteristics of their constituents and their semantic structures. Formal aspects are also considered within a lexeme-based morphology. The analysis shows that, although French and Swedish compounds differ formally, they share more or less the same semantics. Their V constituent takes one or more arguments, and their N constituents display several semantic roles. Semantically, the compounds generally denote an Actor of verbs taking two arguments, and the N constituents denote an Undergoer, except in Swedish VN compounds, which denote an entity which fills the same role as that of the N constituent, generally an Actor. Non argumental interpretations, such as Place or Event, are less frequent. In conclusion, the study can have typological value for the semantics of agentive nominal compounds.1
- Subjects
VOCABULARY; SEMANTICS; FRENCH language; SWEDISH language; COMPARATIVE linguistics
- Publication
Word Structure, 2010, Vol 3, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
1750-1245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/word.2010.0004