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This chapter discusses compounding in the Parallel Architecture and conceptual semantics. Topics covered include the Parallel Architecture, compounds on the cusp between grammar and lexicon, compounds as a relic of protolanguage, preliminaries to semantic analysis of English N + N compounds, aspects of compound meaning that come from semantics of nominals; and the compounding schemata, the basic relations, and composition with the nouns.

Keywords: compounds, conceptual semantics, grammar, lexicon, protolanguage, semantic analysis, nominals, nouns

Ray Jackendoff

Ray Jackendoff is Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He was the 2003 recipient of the Jean Nicod Prize in Cognitive Philosophy and has been President of both the Linguistic Society of America and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. His most recent books are Foundations of Language (Oxford, 2002), Simpler Syntax (with Peter Culicover, Oxford, 2005), Language, Consciousness, Culture (MIT Press, 2007), Meaning and the Lexicon (Oxford, 2010), and A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning (Oxford, 2011).

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