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date: 21 January 2021

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Compounding accounts for a relatively small section of the Polish lexicon of morphologically complex words, compared to a language like English. However, the process is fairly productive in Modern Polish. Moreover, there are specific types of compounds and areas of the vocabulary which, in recent years, have shown a remarkable spread or revitalization of this morphological process. This chapter focuses on the structural diversity and certain formal properties of Polish compounding that set it apart from compounding systems in many other languages, and discusses compound nouns and compound adjectives, interpreted as output categories.

Keywords: Polish compounds, compounding, Modern Polish, compound nouns, compound adjectives

Bogdan Szymanek

Bogdan Szymanek is Professor of English Linguistics, Head of the Department of Modern English, the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His major research interests include morphology and its interfaces with other grammatical components, lexicology, English, and Slavic languages. He is the author of Categories and Categorization in Morphology (1988) and Introduction to Morphological Analysis (3rd edn., 1998).

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