Overview
- One of the most carefully detailed studies of compounding in any language
- Provides a thorough, data-rich and theoretically informed treatment of compounding in Modern Greek, which abounds in intricate compound structures
- Compares Greek compounds with similar formations of languages that are genetically and typologically different ?
Part of the book series: Studies in Morphology (SUMO, volume 2)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- +learned compound constituents
- -learned compound constituents
- Allomorphs of Ancient Greek origin
- Allomorphy in compounding
- Compounds versus syntactic construction
- Constraints, allomorphy and form of constituents
- Coordinative compounds
- Defining a Greek compound
- Deverbal compounds with bound stems
- Endocentric formations
- Exocentric formations
- Greek as a stem-based language
- Headedness and classification
- Modern Greek compounds
- Stem-driven presence
- Stress and morphological structure
- The bare-stem constraint
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Compounding in Modern Greek
Authors: Angela Ralli
Series Title: Studies in Morphology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4960-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4959-7Published: 30 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8272-2Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4960-3Published: 29 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2214-0042
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0050
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 302
Topics: Syntax, Phonology and Phonetics, Greek