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- Title
Adjectival non-heads and the limits of compounding.
- Authors
Hacken, Pius ten; Koliopoulou, Maria
- Abstract
Nominal compounds are compounds with a noun as their head. In the most prototypical cases, the non-head is also a noun. However, we also find A+N expressions that are compounds. As adjectives are more commonly found as syntactic modifiers of nouns, this raises the question how to distinguish [A N] compounds from [A N] syntactic constructions. In this context, we address the issue of the borderline between word formation and syntax. Section 1 delimits the scope of the discussion, characterizing the types of A+N expressions we want to consider here. Section 2 discusses English, German and Dutch data and section 3 the corresponding data in Greek. In section 4, we turn to a special type of construction, which seems to be intermediate between compounds and phrases. Section 5 proposes an analysis in which not all A+N expressions that belong to word formation are compounds.
- Subjects
COMPOUND words; WORD formation (Grammar); PROTOTYPE (Linguistics); ADJECTIVES (Grammar); EXPRESSIVE behavior; COMPARATIVE linguistics
- Publication
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2016, Vol 13, Issue 2, p122
- ISSN
1336-782X
- Publication type
Article