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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Main Authors: Gianina Iordăchioaia, Artemis Alexiadou, Andreas Pairamidis
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main 2017-01-01
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. Dieser Beitrag ist ursprünglich im Peter-Lang-Verlag erschienen (https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/jwf/2017/00000001/00000001/art00004)
ISSN:2367-3877