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The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Total price: R1,536
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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.
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