Composition in Indo‐european Languages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23232178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Clackson (0000-0002-2795-8302, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-167 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Philological Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-1636 • E-ISSN: 1467-968X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-968x.00094 |
| OpenAlex | W2020473104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In recent years that has been a surge of interest in Indo-European word-formation in general, and in particular in compounding.In the eld of Latin linguistics alone there have been three books exclusively on compounds in the past 15 years (Benedetti 1988, Oniga 1988and Lindner 1996), not to mention many more articles on individual words or aspects of compounding.This interest partly reects the inherent attractions of the eld: compounds often exhibit peculiar developments in phonology (see further Rasmussen's paper in this volume), suxation and meaning, and the internal syntax of compounds can sometimes reveal much about the syntactic patterns of a language.Compounds thus oer a transitional area between word-formation and other areas of linguistic study.Furthermore, for many of the Indo-European languages, which have been the subject of intense philological scrutiny for the last 150 years, they oer a relatively untrammelled eld.Another reason for the rise in interest in compounding among Indo-Europeanists can be largely attributed to the groundbreaking work of two scholars: Ernst Risch (see in particular Risch 1944Risch /1949Risch and 1974) ) and Jochem Schindler (see Schindler 1986Schindler , 1987Schindler and 1997)), whose publications and teaching have inspired a generation of students to take up topics involving the diachronic and synchronic study of compounds.In the Summer of 1999 Georey Horrocks, Torsten Meiner and James Clackson were able to organise a conference on Nominal Compounding in Cambridge thanks to the generosity of the Faculty Board of Classics.Our aim was to bring together general linguists and Indo-Europeanists (principally younger scholars) in order to see what each could learn from the other.The papers in this (Vol.100.2) and the next (Vol.100.3) issue of Transactions arise out of that conference.For some languages and language families there are good synchronic descriptions of compounds and methods of compounding (see for Latin the works mentioned above; for Sanskrit
Composition (language) · Linguistics · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |