Remarks on the semantics and paradigmaticity of NN compounds
English Noun+Noun compounding has garnered the attention of morphologists due to characteristics that involve its
semantics (
Bauer & Tarasova, 2010;
Jackendoff,
2009), degree of productivity (
Bauer, Beliaeva, & Tarasova, 2019;
Maguire, Wisniewski, & Storms, 2010) and possible paradigmatic nature (
Bagasheva, in press;
Boyé & Schalchli, 2016). This article addresses
the above questions from an inclusive perspective with the aim of bringing together various unsolved issues in the study of this morphological
process. The experiment exploits data from the BNC Sampler and the
Oxford English Dictionary, from which morphological and
semantic information is extracted in order to fathom the contribution of nominal root compounding to the lexicon. The results show that the
paradigmatic nature, semantics and high productivity of NN compounding are all closely interrelated, which explains certain characteristics
associated to the current status of this process and its role in the enrichment of the lexicon.
Article outline
- Antecedents
- Data preparation
- The Misfits of NN compounding
- The categorization of compound semantics
- The paradigmaticity of compounding
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- List of abbreviations
-
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