- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- [UNTITLED]
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Status and Definition of Compounding
- Compounding and Idiomatology
- The Classification of Compounds
- Early Generative Approaches
- A Lexical Semantic Approach to Compounding
- Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics
- Compounding in Distributed Morphology
- Why are Compounds a Part of Human Language? A View from Asymmetry Theory
- Compounding and Lexicalism
- Compounding and Construction Morphology
- Compounding from an Onomasiological Perspective
- Compounding in Cognitive Linguistics
- Psycholinguistic Perspectives
- Meaning Predictability of Novel Context-Free Compounds
- Children's Acquisition of Compound Constructions
- Diachronic Perspectives
- Typology of Compounds
- IE, Germanic: English
- IE, Germanic: Dutch
- IE, Germanic: German
- IE, Germanic: Danish
- IE, Romance: French
- IE, Romance: Spanish
- IE, Hellenic: Modern Greek
- IE, Slavonic: Polish
- Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese
- Afro-Asiatic, Semitic: Hebrew
- Isolate: Japanese
- Uralic, Finno-Ugric: Hungarian
- Athapaskan: Slave
- Iroquoian: Mohawk
- Arawakan: Maipure-Yavitero
- Araucanian: Mapudungun
- Pama-Nyungan: Warlpiri
- References
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
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 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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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- [UNTITLED]
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Status and Definition of Compounding
- Compounding and Idiomatology
- The Classification of Compounds
- Early Generative Approaches
- A Lexical Semantic Approach to Compounding
- Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics
- Compounding in Distributed Morphology
- Why are Compounds a Part of Human Language? A View from Asymmetry Theory
- Compounding and Lexicalism
- Compounding and Construction Morphology
- Compounding from an Onomasiological Perspective
- Compounding in Cognitive Linguistics
- Psycholinguistic Perspectives
- Meaning Predictability of Novel Context-Free Compounds
- Children's Acquisition of Compound Constructions
- Diachronic Perspectives
- Typology of Compounds
- IE, Germanic: English
- IE, Germanic: Dutch
- IE, Germanic: German
- IE, Germanic: Danish
- IE, Romance: French
- IE, Romance: Spanish
- IE, Hellenic: Modern Greek
- IE, Slavonic: Polish
- Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese
- Afro-Asiatic, Semitic: Hebrew
- Isolate: Japanese
- Uralic, Finno-Ugric: Hungarian
- Athapaskan: Slave
- Iroquoian: Mohawk
- Arawakan: Maipure-Yavitero
- Araucanian: Mapudungun
- Pama-Nyungan: Warlpiri
- References
- Index