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Compounding in Modern Greek

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Compounding (or composition) is a word-formation process. It deals with lexemes or, in a more structural perspective, with stems and words, the combination of which leads to morphologically complex formations, the so-called compounds.

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Notes

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    The fact that there are ancient languages with poor compounding or no compounding casts doubt to Jackendoff’s (2002: 249–251) suggestion that the process may belong to protolanguage.

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    Within another framework, for instance in construction morphology (Booij 2010), compounding is accounted for by morphological schemas expressing form-meaning pairs.

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    According to a weak lexicalist hypothesis (Perlmutter 1988), inflected items are excluded from morphology and are governed by syntax.

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Ralli, A. (2013). Introduction. In: Compounding in Modern Greek. Studies in Morphology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4960-3_1

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