The Oxford Handbook of Compounding

Edited by Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Stekauer

Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics

712 pages | Line Drawings, Tables | 246x171mm

978-0-19-969572-0 | Paperback | 07 July 2011

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Maps the state of the art in the field of compounding
Considers phenomena in a wide range of languages
Draws on the expertise of world-class scholars from a diverse range fo theoretical perspectives

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language families. Compounding is an effective way to create and express new meanings. Compound words are segmentable into their constituents so that new items can often be understood on first presentation. However, as keystone, keynote, and keyboard, and breadboard, sandwich-board, and mortarboard show, the relation between components is often far from straightforward. The question then arises as to how far compound sequences are analysed at each encounter and how far they are stored in the brain as single lexical items. The nature and processing of compounds thus offer an unusually direct route to how language operates in the mind, as well as providing the means of investigating important aspects of morphology, and lexical semantics, and insights to child language acquisition and the organization of the mental lexicon. This book is the first to report on the state of the art on these and other central topics, including the classification and typology of compounds, and approaches to cross-linguistic research on the subject from generative and non-generative, synchronic and diachronic perspectives.

Readership: Students of linguistics at advanced undergraduate level and above, as well as experts in the field of morphology, lexicology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics. More broadly, it will be of use to scholars in related fields-such as psychology, neurology, and anthropology-who need to know something about theoretical approaches to compounding, or about compounding in particular languages.

Edited by Rochelle Lieber, University of New Hampshire, and Pavol Stekauer, Safarik University

Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Morphology and Lexical Semantics (2004), Deconstructing Morphology (1992), An Integrated Theory of Autosegmental Processes (1987), and On the Organization of the Lexicon (1981), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on morphology.

Pavol Stekauer is Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of British and US Studies, Safárik University, Kosice, Slovakia. His main research area is an onomasiological approach to word-formation and word-interpretation. His published works include A Theory of Conversion in English (1996), An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation (1998), and Meaning Predictability in Word Formation (2005).

Contributors:
Rochelle Lieber, University of New Hampshire
Pavol Stekauer, Safarik University
Mark C. Baker, Rutgers University
Bianca Basciano, University of Verona
Laurie Bauer, Victoria University of Wellington
Ruth Berman, Tel Aviv University
Antonietta Bisetto, University of Bologna
Geert Booij, University of Leiden
Hagit Borer, University of Southern California
Antonella Ceccagno, University of Bologna
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, University of Quebec
Jan Don, University of Amsterdam
Carlos A. Fasola, Rutgers University
Bernard Fradin, University of Paris 7
Christina L. Gagné, University of Alberta
Heinz Giegerich, University of Edinburgh
Joachim Grzega, University of Eichstatt
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
Liesbet Heyvaert, University of Leuven
Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University
Taro Kageyama, Kwansei Gakuin University
Dieter Kastovsky, University of Vienna
Stanislav Kavka, Ostrava University
Ferenc Kiefer, Budapest University
Laura Malena Kornfeld, University of Buenos Aires
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara
Martin Neef, Universityof Braunschweig
Angela Ralli, University of Patras
Keren Rice, University of Toronto
Sergio Scalise, University of Bologna
Jane Simpson, University of Sydney
Bogdan Szymanek, University of Lublin
Pius ten Hacken, University of Wales
Raoul Zamponi, University of Siene

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