Abstract
In this paper, we compare Modern Greek nominal compounds to their Turkish counterparts and reveal that Modern Greek nominal compounds under investigation are morphological while Turkish ones are syntactically built. Based on this, we offer an explanation for the availability of phrasal compounds in Turkish but not in Modern Greek: phrase-level items can be involved in syntactic compounds, but not in morphological compounds involving solely morphological items. The study reveals that the locus of compound formation is not confined to a single module both cross-linguistically and within a language, but the locus of a specific type of compound in a language entails whether or not phrasal compounds with the same compound structure can also occur in that specific language.
Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Carola Trips and Jaklin Kornfilt, the organizers of the ‘Workshop on Phrasal Compounds from a Theoretical and Typological Perspective’ (June 21, 2013, Mannheim, Germany) as well as Marios Andreou, Lieven Danckaert, Eric Lander and the audience of the workshop for their constructive remarks and help with the text. We are particularly grateful to Jaklin Kornfilt and Aslı Göksel for their elaborate comments and suggestions. Metin Bağrıaçık gratefully acknowledges the Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO13/ASP/010) for financial support for his research, and Angela Ralli the Research Funding Program THALIS, co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF). The paper is the result of close collaboration and discussion by the two authors. However, for academic purposes, M.B. is mainly responsible for sections 3 and 4, A.R. for sections 2 and 5, while the remaining sections are the outcome of joint work.
Abbreviations
- abil
ability
- acc
accusative
- agr
agreement
- aor
aorist
- cm
compound marker
- der
derivational suffix
- ev
evidential
- fem
feminine
- fnom
factive nominalizer
- gen
genitive
- imp
imperative
- loc
locative
- masc
masculine
- nt
neuter
- nom
nominative
- past
past tense
- pl
plural
- poss
possessive
- PRON
pronominal -ki
- prv
privative
- q
question marker
- rel
relational
- sg
singular
- 1/2/3
first/second/third person
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- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- On “R” in phrasal compounds – a contextualist approach
- Phrasal compounds are compatible with Lexical Integrity
- Typological aspects of phrasal compounds in English, German, Turkish and Turkic
- Phrasal vs. morphological compounds: Insights from Modern Greek and Turkish
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- On “R” in phrasal compounds – a contextualist approach
- Phrasal compounds are compatible with Lexical Integrity
- Typological aspects of phrasal compounds in English, German, Turkish and Turkic
- Phrasal vs. morphological compounds: Insights from Modern Greek and Turkish
- Phrasal compounds in Turkish: Distinguishing citations from quotations
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