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This chapter first reviews some of the parameters along which compounds may vary, and then considers the extent to which observing such variation brings us closer to a typology of compounds. It discusses the formal marking of compounds, headedness, the order of elements in compounds, recursion in compounds, and the semantics of compounds.

Keywords: compounds, compounding, typology, headedness, recursion, semantics

Laurie Bauer

Laurie Bauer is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty Research at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of several books on morphology, including English word-formation (1983), Introducing linguistic morphology (1988, 2nd edition 2003), Morphological productivity (2001), A glossary of morphology (2002) and, most recently, with Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag, The Oxford reference guide to English morphology (2013). He was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2012.

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