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date: 25 January 2021

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This chapter discusses the linguistic properties of German compounds. It is organized along the following generally assumed structure of lexemes, concentrating on such properties of compounds that go beyond the properties of their constituents: phonological form, grammatical features, argument structure, and semantic form.

Keywords: German compounds, compounding, lexemes, phonological form, grammatical features, argument structure, semantic form

Martin Neef

Martin Neef is Professor of German linguistics at the Braunschweig University of Technology (Germany). He has published in the fields of morphology, phonology, and written language, mostly on German. His major publications are Wortdesign: Eine deklarative Analyse der deutschen Verbflexion (Stauffenburg, 1996), Die Graphematik des Deutschen (Niemeyer, 2005), and Eigennamen: Special issue of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (co-edited with Peter Gallmann, 2005). Currently, he is preparing a terminological dictionary on written language research (together with Rüdiger Weingarten).

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