Date: 16-Aug-2005 From: Lowri Jones <lowri.jonesoup.com> Subject: Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination: Wälchli
Title: Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
Published: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Bernhard Wälchli, University of Bern
Hardback: ISBN: 0199276218 Pages: 352 Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Abstract:
This book presents a typological survey and analysis of the co-compound construction. This understudied phenomenon is essentially a compound whose meaning is the result of coordinating the meanings of its components, as when in some varieties of English 'mother-father' denotes 'parents'. In the course of the work Dr Wälchli examines and discusses topics of great theoretical and linguistic interest. These include the notion of word, markedness, the syntax and semantics of coordination, grammaticalization, lexical semantics, the distinction between compounding and phrase formation, and the constructional meanings languages can deploy. The book makes many observations and points about typology and areal features and includes a wealth of unfamiliar data. It will be invaluable for typologists and of considerable interest to a variety of specialists including lexicologists, morphologists, construction grammarians, cognitive linguists, semanticists, field linguists, and syntacticians.
Linguistic Field(s):
Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
Typology
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