The Semantics of Compounding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23182575 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Pius Ten Hacken (0000-0002-6468-1891) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Semantics of Compounding (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781316163122 |
| OpenAlex | W2481685745 |
| ISBN | 9781316163122 |
| Open Library | OL34732428M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The question of how to determine the meaning of compounds was prominent in early generative morphology, but lost importance after the late 1970s. In the past decade, it has been revived by the emergence of a number of frameworks that are better suited to studying this question than earlier ones. In this book, three frameworks for studying the semantics of compounding are presented by their initiators: Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture, Lieber's theory of lexical semantics, and Štekauer's onomasiological theory. Common to these presentations is a focus on English noun-noun compounds. In the following chapters, these theories are then applied to different types of compounding (phrasal, A+N, neoclassical) and other languages (French, German, Swedish, Greek). Finally, a comparison highlights how each framework offers particular insight into the meaning of compounds. An exciting new contribution to the field, this book will be of interest to morphologists, semanticists and cognitive linguists.
Cognition · Cognitive semantics · Compounding · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Generative grammar · German · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Noun · Programming language · Semantics (computer science) · Computer Science · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Comparative and general Grammar · Compound words · Grammar, Comparative and general · Semantics · Word formation
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |