Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. PREFACE 5
3. CONTENTS 7
4. Examples cited have been taken from the following sources 11
5. PART A. THE MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF ATHEMATIC ABBREVIATED COMPOUNDS
6. Introduction 15
7. I. Non-Oblique Underlying Phrases of a Structure [X-Y] 18
8. II. Non-Oblique Underlying Phrases of an Expanded [...X-Y] Structure 43
9. III. Reformulated Oblique Underlying Phrases 54
10. IV. Non-Reformulation of Oblique Complements 82
11. V. Non-Compounded (Simple) Truncations 93
12. Summary 95
13. PART B. MODELS OF THEMATIC COMPOUND FORMATION
14. Introduction 109
15. I. Typology of Inherited Thematic Compound Formations in Modern Russian 113
16. II. The Historical Basis of Thematic Compound Formation: Early Borrowings from Greek 138
17. III. Borrowings from Western European Languages into Russian 153
18. IV. Borrowed Compound Patterns in Twentieth Century Russian 163
19. Conclusion 176
20. Appendix: Athematic Partial Truncations 187
21. Bibliography 223
22. Index 229