Co-compounds and natural coordination
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Co-compounds and natural coordination
（Oxford studies in typology and linguistic theory）（Oxford linguistics）
Oxford University Press, 2009, c2005
- : pbk
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"First published in paperback 2009"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 'father-mother' denotes 'parents'. During the course of the book Dr Walchi 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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Marking Patterns of Natural Coordination
- 3. Tight Coordination
- 4. Co-compounds as a Lexical Class Type
- 5. A Semantic Classification of Co-compounds
- 6. The Areal Distribution of Co-compounds in the Languages of Eurasia
- 7. Some Considerations about the Diachronic Evolution of Co-compounds
- 8. Conclusions
- Appendix
- References
- Index of Persons
- Index of Languages
- Index of Subjects
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