The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the "take a look" construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributio…
The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the "take a look" construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributio…
The study of compounds is currently at the center of attention in many areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. This volume brings together contributions by experts involved in a wide range of such areas, based on a large number of diverse languages ù spoken and signed…
Verb-verb complexes in Asian languages
This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Many Asian languages share, to a greater or lesser extent, a unique class of compound verbs consisting of a main verb…
"Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspectiv…
The semantics of compounding
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: compounds and their meaning Pius ten Hacken; Part I. Frameworks: 2. English noun-noun compounds in conceptual semantics Ray Jackendoff; 3. Compounding in the lexical semantic framework Rochelle Lieber; 4. Compounding from an onom…
Les mots composes dans les langues romanes (Janua linguarum : Series practica).
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