Tri-Constituent Compounds : : A Usage-Based Account of Complex Nominal Compounding / / Elisabeth Huber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Huber, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 114
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XI, 271 p.)

This book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g. day care center, football game, hotel bedroom). It highlights the heterogeneity of these word-formation products, but also carves out surprising differences to two-word compounds. In order to reveal the step from two-word compounding to multi-word compounding, the book explains why only some compounds are used productively for the formation of more complex compounds. Building on the idea of entrenchment, it provides a theoretical account that allows understanding speakers’ ability to produce multi-word compounds.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Theoretical Prerequisites -- 2 Compounds and Compounding -- 3 Multi-word compounding -- Part II: Data acquisition and annotation -- 4 Compilation of a compound database -- 5 Annotation of internal structure -- Part III: Formal and functional description of three-noun compounds -- 6 Formal analysis of three-noun compounds -- 7 Functional analysis of three-noun compounds -- Part IV: The formation of tri-constituent compounds -- 8 Productivity in complex compounding -- Part V: Synopsis -- 9 A portrait of three-noun compounds -- 10 Summary and conclusions -- 11 Outlook -- References -- Subject index