Cover not available
Part of
Studies in Lexicogrammar: Theory and applications
Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż
[Human Cognitive Processing 54] 2016
► pp. 243–260

Headedness of coordinate compounds in Polish and English

This chapter investigates Polish Noun+Noun combinations and their English equivalents, which can be regarded as appositional or copulative compounds in the terminology employed by Spencer (1991), or Olsen (2004), and as coordinate compounds in the typology proposed by Bisetto and Scalise (2005), e.g. poeta tłumacz (poet translator), piosenkarz-tekściarz (singer-songwriter), kierowca-kobieta (woman driver). They are contrasted with attributive compounds (cf. Bisetto & Scalise 2005), such as pisarz-widmo (ghost writer) and kobieta-guma (lit. woman-rubber/ a female contortionist). The discussion weighs which element should be identified as the head in those compounds (cf. Scalise and Fábregas 2010), when their semantic interpretation, inflectional properties and reversibility are considered.
Keywords: apposition, coordination, juxtapositions, nominal compounds
Published online: 4 August 2016
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.54.13cet
References (27)
Allen, M.R. 1978. Morphological investigations. PhD dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs.Google Scholar
Bauer, L. 1983. English word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Bierwiaczonek, B. 2013. Metonymy in language, thought and brain. Sheffield: Equinox.Google Scholar
Bisetto, A., & Scalise, S. 2005. The classification of compounds. Lingue e Linguaggio, 2, 319–332.Google Scholar
Bloomfield, L. 1933. Language. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.Google Scholar
Di Sciullo, A.-M., & Williams, E. 1987. On the definition of word. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.Google Scholar
Fabb, N. 1998. Compounding. In A. Spencer & A.M. Zwicky (Eds.), The handbook of morphology (66–83). Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Giegerich, H. 2005. Associative adjectives in English and the lexicon-syntax interface. Journal of Linguistics, 41, 571–591. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Grzegorczykowa, R., & Puzynina, J. 1984. Słowotwórstwo rzeczowników. In R. Grzegorczykowa, R. Laskowski, & H. Wróbel (Eds.), Gramatyka współczesnego języka polskiego. Morfologia (332–407). Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.Google Scholar
Haspelmath, M. 2002. Understanding morphology. London: Arnold.Google Scholar
Jackendoff, R. 2010. Meaning and the lexicon. The Parallel Architecture 1975–2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Jadacka, H. 2001. System słowotwórczy polszczyzny (1945–2000). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.Google Scholar
Kuczok, M. 2016.The interplay of metaphor and metonymy in English noun+noun compounds. In G. Drożdż (Ed.), Studies in lexicogrammar: Theory and applications. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Levi, J.N. 1978. The syntax and semantics of complex nominals. New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Nagórko, A. 1997. Zarys gramatyki polskiej. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN.Google Scholar
Olsen, S. 2001. Copulative compounds: A closer look at the interface between syntax and morphology. Yearbook of Morphology, 2001, 279–320. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
. 2004. Coordination in morphology and syntax: The case of copulative compounds. In A. ter Meulen & W. Abraham (Eds.), The composition of meaning. From lexeme to discourse (17–38). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logo
Plag, I. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Polański, K. 1999 Encyklopedia językoznawstwa ogólnego, Second Edition. Wrocław, Warszawa & Kraków: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich.Google Scholar
Renner, V., & Fernández-Domínguez, J. 2011. Coordinate compounding in English and Spanish. Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 47, 873–883. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Scalise, S., & Bisetto, A. 2009. Classification of compounds. In R. Lieber & P. Štekauer (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of compounding (49–82). Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Scalise, S., & Fábregas, A. 2010. The head in compounding. In S. Scalise & I. Vogel (Eds.), Cross-disciplinary issues in compounding (109–125). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Spencer, A. 1991. Morphological theory: An introduction to word structure in generative grammar. Oxford & Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.Google Scholar
Szymanek, B. 2010. A panorama of Polish word-formation. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.Google Scholar
Thornburg, L.L., & Panther, K.-U. 2000. Why we subject incorporate (in English). A post-Whorfian view. In M. Pütz & M.H. Verspoor (Eds.), Explorations in linguistic relativity (319–343). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Willim, E. 2001. On NP-internal agreement: A study of some adjectival and nominal modifiers in Polish. In G. Zybatow, U. Junghanns, G. Mehlhorn, & L. Szucsich (Eds.), Current issues in formal Slavic linguistics (80–95). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.Google Scholar