10 Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic
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Ingeborg Ohnheiser
Abstract
Slavic languages, as compared to English or German, show significant limitations with respect to the formation of nominal compounds. These limitations are often compensated for by complex designations consisting of a relational adjective and noun or by other types of multi-word expressions. To a significant extent the increase of new vocabulary in modern Slavic languages feeds on borrowings and loan translations or hybrid words, a large part of which consists of different types of compounds and compound elements of foreign origin. Most of the new compounds continue to exhibit parallel designations in terms of multi-word expressions consisting of a relational adjective+noun or noun+noungen/prep.case. Their occurrence is often more frequent than that of compounds and thus represents the continuation of typical preferences in designation.
Abstract
Slavic languages, as compared to English or German, show significant limitations with respect to the formation of nominal compounds. These limitations are often compensated for by complex designations consisting of a relational adjective and noun or by other types of multi-word expressions. To a significant extent the increase of new vocabulary in modern Slavic languages feeds on borrowings and loan translations or hybrid words, a large part of which consists of different types of compounds and compound elements of foreign origin. Most of the new compounds continue to exhibit parallel designations in terms of multi-word expressions consisting of a relational adjective+noun or noun+noungen/prep.case. Their occurrence is often more frequent than that of compounds and thus represents the continuation of typical preferences in designation.
Chapters in this book
- 1 Parasynthesis in Romance 1
- 2 Affix pleonasm 17
- 3 Interfixes in Romance 33
- 4 Linking elements in Germanic 55
- 5 Synthetic compounds in German 71
- 6 Particle verbs in Germanic 85
- 7 Noun-noun compounds in French 103
- 8 Verb-noun compounds in Romance 121
- 9 Co-compounds 145
- 10 Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic 171
- 11 Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation 199
- 12 Word-formation and analogy 223
- 13 Productivity 247
- 14 Restrictions in word-formation 267
- 15 Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns 287
- 16 Phonological restrictions on English word-formation 307
- 17 Morphological restrictions on English word-formation 337
- 18 Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee 353
- 19 Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation 369
- 20 Closing suffixes 385
Chapters in this book
- 1 Parasynthesis in Romance 1
- 2 Affix pleonasm 17
- 3 Interfixes in Romance 33
- 4 Linking elements in Germanic 55
- 5 Synthetic compounds in German 71
- 6 Particle verbs in Germanic 85
- 7 Noun-noun compounds in French 103
- 8 Verb-noun compounds in Romance 121
- 9 Co-compounds 145
- 10 Compounds and multi-word expressions in Slavic 171
- 11 Rules, patterns and schemata in word-formation 199
- 12 Word-formation and analogy 223
- 13 Productivity 247
- 14 Restrictions in word-formation 267
- 15 Argument-structural restrictions on word-formation patterns 287
- 16 Phonological restrictions on English word-formation 307
- 17 Morphological restrictions on English word-formation 337
- 18 Semantic restrictions on word-formation: the English suffix -ee 353
- 19 Dissimilatory phenomena in French word-formation 369
- 20 Closing suffixes 385
