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- Title
Productivity of form and productivity of meaning in N+N compounds.
- Authors
Tarasova, Elizaveta
- Abstract
This paper reports on the results of a corpus-based study of English N+N compounds that are hyponyms of their rightmost elements (Bloomfield 1933: 235), e.g. library book, hen house, coffee cup, with the aim of investigating the relation between productivity, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the structural pattern of N+N compound formation (with a particular reference to the relationship between the elements of the compound). The discussion of the results addresses the question of whether productivity of a noun in forming a paradigm of compounds (constituent word family) could be connected with the productivity of the relation realised in the compound paradigm containing this noun. This question has its roots in the ongoing discussion of the role of analogy in the formation of complex lexical items, and its investigation may shed light on the issue of analogy in both formal and semantic patterning.
- Subjects
LEXICAL grammar; ANALOGY (Linguistics); PARADIGM (Linguistics); SEMANTICS; HYPOTHESIS
- Publication
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2019, Vol 16, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
1336-782X
- Publication type
Article