Morphosyntactic sources for nominal synthetic compounds in English and Greek
We analyze English and Greek nominal synthetic compounds like truck driver and truck driving from a syntactic perspective couched within Distributed Morphology. We derive the main differences between the two languages from the different morphosyntactic status of the non-head nouns, which are roots i...
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| Format: | Article |
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Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung |
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| Summary: | We analyze English and Greek nominal synthetic compounds like truck driver and truck driving from a syntactic perspective couched within Distributed Morphology. We derive the main differences between the two languages from the different morphosyntactic status of the non-head nouns, which are roots in Greek but categorized words in English.
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| ISSN: | 2367-3877 |