Compounding in Modern Greek

✍ Scribed by Angela Ralli (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 306
Series: Studies in Morphology 2
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds—their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages. This book on Modern Greek rises to the challenge with a meticulous treatment of its diverse, intricate compounds, a study as grounded in theory as it is rich in data. Enhancing our knowledge of compounding and word-formation in general, its exceptional scope is a worthy model for linguists, particularly morphologists, and offers insights for students of syntax, phonology, dialectology and typology, among others. The author examines first-tier themes such as the order and relations of constituents, headedness, exocentricity, and theta-role saturation. She shows how Modern Greek compounding relates to derivation and inflection, and charts the boundaries between compounds and phrases. Exploring dialectically variant compounds, and identifying historical changes, the analysis extends to similarly formed compounds in wholly unrelated languages.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Defining a Greek Compound....Pages 7-27
Grammatical Category and Constituents....Pages 29-46
Compound Marking....Pages 47-73
Stress and Morphological Structure....Pages 75-98
Headedness and Classification....Pages 99-129
Constraints, Allomorphy and Form of Compound Constituents....Pages 131-155
Coordinative Compounds....Pages 157-179
Verbal and Deverbal Compounds....Pages 181-199
Deverbal Compounds with Bound Stems....Pages 201-220
Compounding Versus Derivation and Inflection....Pages 221-241
Compounds Versus Phrases....Pages 243-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-301

✦ Subjects

Syntax; Phonology; Greek

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