Co-compounds and Natural CoordinationOxford University Press, 2005 - 334 páginas This book presents a typological survey and analysis of the co-compound construction. This understudied phenomenon is essentially a compound whose meaning is the result of coordinating the meanings of its components, as when in some varieties of English 'mother-father' denotes 'parents'. In the course of the work Dr Walchi examines and discusses topics of great theoretical and linguistic interest. These include the notion of word, markedness, the syntax and semantics of coordination, grammaticalization, lexical semantics, the distinction between compounding and phrase formation, and the constructional meanings languages can deploy. The book makes many observations and points about typology and areal features and includes a wealth of unfamiliar data. It will be invaluable for typologists and of considerable interest to a variety of specialists including lexicologists, morphologists, construction grammarians, cognitive linguists, semanticists, field linguists, and syntacticians. " |
Contenido
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The Marking Patterns of Natural Coordination | 38 |
3 Tight Coordination | 67 |
4 Cocompounds as a Lexical Class Type | 90 |
5 A Semantic Classification of Cocompounds | 135 |
6 The Areal Distribution of Cocompounds in the Languages of Eurasia | 186 |
7 Some Considerations about the Diachronic Evolution of Cocompounds | 243 |
8 Conclusions | 274 |
Languages and their Linguistic Affiliation | 281 |
Map of Languages | 286 |
References | 288 |
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additive co-compounds Adyghe affixes appositional compounds areal Bahasa Indonesia Basque Bernese German binomials characteristic Chuvash class type clitics co-com co-compounding languages collective co-compounds comitative concepts considered constructions contexts contextual motivation contrast coordinands coordinate sequence cross-linguistic diachronic disjunction distinct domain double marking Dravidian dvandva echo-words English Erza Erza Mordvin Eurasia Eurasian languages example expression formal frequency of co-compounds function Georgian German grammatical classes grammaticalization group inflection Haspelmath highly Hmong ibid ideophones Kâte Khalkha Khanty level of co-compounding lexemes lexical classes lexicon Lezgian linguistic Mandarin markedness marker Mordvin morphemes morphological natural coordination non-relational marking occur overt coordinator phonological phrase-like tight coordination plural pounds properties prosodic reduplication registers Russian Section semantic semantic profiles semantic types serial verbs specific structure sub-compounds synonymic co-compounds synonymy syntactic syntax text frequency textual markedness tight coordination patterns Tok Pisin translations Turkic languages Turkish types of co-compounds typically typological UDHR Uralic Uyghur verbal co-compounds Vietnamese word class