The role of syntax in the productivity of German N+N compounds. A diachronic corpus study
This paper studies the morphological productivity of German N+N compounding patterns from a diachronic perspective. It argues that the productivity of compounds increases due to syntactic influence from genitive constructions ("improper compounds") in Early New High German. Both quantitati...
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Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung |
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