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Author:   Rochelle Lieber (, University of New Hampshire) ,  Pavol Stekauer (, Safarik University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.286kg
ISBN:  

9780199219872

ISBN 10:   0199219877
Pages:   712
Publication Date:   29 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part I: 1: Rochelle Lieber and Pavol Stekauer: Introduction: Status and Definition of Compounding 2: Stanislav Kavka: Compounding and Idiomatology 3: Antonietta Bisetto and Sergio Scalise: The Classification of Compounds 4: Pius ten Hacken: Early Generative Approaches 5: Rochelle Lieber: A Lexical Semantic Approach to Compounding 6: Ray Jackendoff: Compounding in the Parallel Architecture and Conceptual Semantics 7: Heidi Harley: Compounding in Distributed Morphology 8: Anna Maria Di Scuillo: Why are Compounds a Part of Human Language? A View from Asymmetry Theory 9: Heinz Giegerich: Compounding and Lexicalism 10: Geert Booij: Compounding and Construction Morphology 11: Joachim Grzega: Compounding from an Onomasiological Perspective 12: Liesbet Heyvaert: Compounding in Cognitive Linguistics 13: Christina L. Gagné: Psycholinguistic Perspectives 14: Pavol Stekauer: Meaning Predictability of Novel Context-free Compounds 15: Ruth Berman: Children's Acquisition of Compound Constructions 16: Dieter Kastovsky: Diachronic Perspectives Part II 17: Laurie Bauer: Typology of Compounds 18: Rochelle Lieber: IE, Germanic: English 19: Jan Don: IE, Germanic: Dutch 20: Martin Neef: IE, Germanic: German 21: Laurie Bauer: . IE, Germanic: Danish 22: Bernard Fradin: IE, Romance: French 23: Laura Malena Kornfeld: IE, Romance: Spanish 24: Angela Ralli: IE, Hellenic: Modern Greek 25: Bogdan Szymanek: IE, Slavonic: Polish 26: Antonella Ceccagno and Bianca Basciano: Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese 27: Hagit Borer: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic: Hebrew 28: Taro Kageyama: Isolate: Japanese 29: Ferenc Kiefer: Uralic, Finno-Ugric: Hungarian 30: Keren Rice: Athapaskan: Slave 31: Marianne Mithun: Iroquoian: Mohawk 32: Raoul Zamponi: Arawakan: Maipure-Yavitero 33: Mark C. Baker and Carlos A. Fasola: Araucanian: Mapudungun 34: Jane Simpson: Pama-Nyungan: Warlpiri References Index

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Rochelle Lieber is Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of On the Organization of the Lexicon (1981), An Integrated Theory of Autosegmental Processes (1987), Deconstructing Morphology (1992), and Morphology and Lexical Semantics (2004). She is co-Editor in Chief of Blackwell's Language and Linguistics Compass. Pavol Stekauer is Professor of English linguistics in the Department of British and US Studies, Safárik University, Kosice, Slovakia. He is the author of A Theory of Conversion in English (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1996), An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation (1998), and English Word-Formation: A History of Research (2000), and Meaning Predictability in Word-Formation (2005) Professor Lieber and Professor Stekauer are joint editors of A Handbook of Word-Formation (2005).

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