This controversial new book addresses the linguistic problems around compounds: words which sit on the borderline of syntax and morphology.
This book tests over 60 hypotheses and explores the patterns underlying the spelling of English compounds from a variety of perspectives.
... compound consisting of two nouns , baby and the deverbal noun sitter . However , there is no general process of N + ... scale of degree of synthesis , the average number of morphemes in a word . On one end of the scale we find ...
... compounds are inter- preted as wholes ; thus linguistic knowledge of other forms is not activated in all instances . In Figure 2 we propose a scale which has only illustrative purposes . It shows how more and more linguistic knowledge ...
Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.
... compound consisting of two parts is dad-mum 'parents'. An older variant for 'hearing person' was formed by the ... scale cross-linguistic investigations, including the investigation in hand, suffer from a heavy written-language ...
... compound linguistic ordinal scale as the fuzzy rating scale for expert judgments , and cognitive pairwise comparison for determining the fuzzy weights . wang , Z. X. , & Wang , Y. Y. [ 84 ] , use the Mahalanobis distance to improve ...
... linguistic data to distinguish phrases from ... compound. This paper is organized as follows: In Sect.2, we give a brief overview of Georgian-English language contact and characterize it from the point of view of the borrowing scale ...
This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of surveys of compounding in a variety of languages from a wide range of language ...
... compound hesitant fuzzy linguistic tools ; for example , Wang et al . [ 63 ] developed a MADM approach based on ... scale , which further was verified by the experiments of olive sensory evaluation in Martínez et al . [ 43 ] ...