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date: 25 January 2021

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This chapter reviews analyses of compounding from the point of view of Cognitive Linguistics, which looks at language from the perespective of the cognitive abilities of the language user. It is organized as follows. Section 12.1 makes explicit the assumptions and claims behind the overall cognitive framework and points to its potential with respect to the modelling of compounding. Section 12.2 gives a thematic overview of the existing cognitive analyses of particular compound types. Finally, Section 12.3 recapitulates and sketches some possible avenues for further research.

Keywords: compounds, language, cognitive abilities, cognitive analyses

Liesbet Heyvaert

Liesbet Heyvaert completed her PhD on English nominalizations at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2002. Since then she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO). She has published mainly on nominalization (-er, -ee,-ing) and middle formation. She is the author of A Cognitive-Functional Approach to Nominalization in English (Mouton de Gruyter, 2003).

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