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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Main Author: Kristin Kopf
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main 2018-01-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Wortbildung
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