List of abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Why compounding? 1
5. Section 1. Delimiting the field
6. The role of syntax and morphology in compounding 21
7. Constraints on compounds and incorporation 37
8. Compounding versus derivation 57
9. Section 2. At the core of compounding
10. Units in compounding 77
11. Compound construction: Schemas or analogy? 93
12. The head in compounding 109
13. On the lexical semantics of compounds 127
14. The phonology of compounds 145
15. Section 3. Typology and types of compounds
16. The typology of exocentric compounding 167
17. Coordination in compounding 177
18. Parasynthetic compounds 199
19. Synthetic compounds 219
20. Corpus data and theoretical implications 237
21. Section 4. Quantitative and psycholinguistic aspects of compounding
22. Frequency effects in compound processing 257
23. Computational issues in compound processing 271
24. Relational competition during compound interpretation 287
25. Sign languages and compounding 301
26. First language acquisition of compounds 323
27. List of abbreviations 345
28. Master list of references 349
29. Language index 377
30. Subject index 379