The Oxford Handbook of Compounding

by Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer

Overview

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families. Compounding is an effective way to create and express new meanings. Compound words are segmentable into their constituents so that new items can often be understood on first presentation. However, as keystone, keynote, and keyboard, and breadboard, sandwich-board, and mortarboard show, the relation between components is often far from straightforward. The question then arises as to how far compound sequences are analysed at each encounter and how far they are stored in the brain as single lexical items. The nature and processing of compounds thus offer an unusually direct route to how language operates in the mind, as well as providing the means of investigating important aspects of morphology, and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisition and the organization of the mental lexicon. This book is the first to report on the state of the art on these and other central topics, including the classification and typology of compounds, and approaches to cross-linguistic research on the subject from generative and non-generative, synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199219872
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/25/2009
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 5.30(d)

About the Author

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Morphology and Lexical Semantics (2004), Deconstructing Morphology (1992), An Integrated Theory of Autosegmental Processes (1987), and On the Organization of the Lexicon (1981), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on morphology.

Pavol Stekauer is Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of British and US Studies, Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia. His main research area is an onomasiological approach to word-formation and word-interpretation. His published works include A Theory of Conversion in English (1996), An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation (1998), and Meaning Predictability in Word Formation (2005).

Table of Contents

Part I:1. Introduction: Status and Definition of Compounding, Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Stekauer2. Compounding and Idiomatology, Stanislav Kavka3. The Classification of Compounds, Antonietta Bisetto and Sergio Scalise4. Early Generative Approaches, Pius ten Hacken5. A Lexical Semantic Approach to Compounding, Rochelle Lieber6. Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics, Ray Jackendoff7. Compounding in Distributed Morphology, Heidi Harley8. Why are Compounds a Part of Human Language? A View from Asymmetry Theory, Anna Maria Di Scuillo9. Compounding and Lexicalism, Heinz Giegerich10. Compounding and Construction Morphology, Geert Booij11. Compounding from an Onomasiological Perspective, Joachim Grzega12. Compounding in Cognitive Linguistics, Liesbet Heyvaert13. Psycholinguistic Perspectives, Christina L. Gagné14. Meaning Predictability of Novel Context-free Compounds, Pavol Stekauer15. Children's Acquisition of Compound Constructions, Ruth Berman16. Diachronic Perspectives, Dieter KastovskyPart II17. Typology of Compounds, Laurie Bauer18. IE, Germanic: English, Rochelle Lieber19. IE, Germanic: Dutch, Jan Don20. IE, Germanic: German, Martin Neef21. . IE, Germanic: Danish, Laurie Bauer22. IE, Romance: French, Bernard Fradin23. IE, Romance: Spanish, Laura Malena Kornfeld24. IE, Hellenic: Modern Greek, Angela Ralli25. IE, Slavonic: Polish, Bogdan Szymanek26. Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese, Antonella Ceccagno and Bianca Basciano27. Afro-Asiatic, Semitic: Hebrew, Hagit Borer28. Isolate: Japanese, Taro Kageyama29. Uralic, Finno-Ugric: Hungarian, Ferenc Kiefer30. Athapaskan: Slave, Keren Rice31. Iroquoian: Mohawk, Marianne Mithun32. Arawakan: Maipure-Yavitero, Raoul Zamponi33. Araucanian: Mapudungun, Mark C. Baker and Carlos A. Fasola34. Pama-Nyungan: Warlpiri, Jane SimpsonReferencesIndex