Tri-Constituent Compounds A Usage-Based Account of Complex Nominal Compounding

This book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g. day care center, football game, hotel bedroom). It highlights the heterogeneity of these word-formation products, but also carves out surprising differences to two-word compounds. In order to reveal the step from two-word compounding to multi-word compounding, the book explains why only some compounds are used productively for the formation of more complex compounds. Building on the idea of entrenchment, it provides a theoretical account that allows understanding speakers' ability to produce multi-word compounds.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Elisabeth Huber
, University of Munich, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

This book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g.
day care center
,
football game
,
hotel bedroom
). It highlights the heterogeneity of these word-formation products, but also carves out surprising differences to two-word compounds. In order to reveal the step from two-word compounding to multi-word compounding, the book explains why only some compounds are used productively for the formation of more complex compounds. Building on the idea of entrenchment, it provides a theoretical account that allows understanding speakers’ ability to produce multi-word compounds.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Elisabeth Huber
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 07.10.2024
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
• EAN: 9783111629209
• ISBN: 978-3-11-162920-9
• Anzahl Seiten: 271
• Illustration: 15 b/w and 17 col. ill., 29 b/w tbl.
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.5 x 1.6 x 23 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 560 g
• Serie: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] > 114
• Themen: Englisch, Morphologie, Wortbildung, Linguistics, Komposita, Grammar, syntax & morphology, productivity, Computational Linguistics, Paperback Project, FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Morphological Structure, Multi-word Compounds, Complex Compounding, Entrenchment