TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Brunner, Annelen
A1  - Engelberg, Stefan
A1  - Hein, Katrin
ED  - Vogel, Petra M.
ED  - Donalies, Elke
ED  - Eichinger, Ludwig M.
T1  - The distribution of constituent words in nominal compounds and its impact on semantic interpretation: an empirical study
JF  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung
JF  - Journal of Word Formation
N2  - The paper explores factors that influence the distribution of constituent words of compounds over the head and modifier position. The empirical basis for the study is a large database of German compounds, annotated with respect to the morphological structure of the compound and the semantic category of the constituents. The study shows that the polysemy of the constituent word, its constituent family size, and its semantic category account for tendencies of the constituent word to occur in either modifier or head position. Furthermore, the paper explores the degree to which the semantic category combination of head and modifier word, e.g., x=substance and y=artifact, indicates the semantic relation between the constituents, e.g., y_consists_of_x.
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Wortbildung
KW  - Morphologie <Linguistik>
KW  - Kontrastive Morphologie
KW  - Polysemie
KW  - compound interpretation
KW  - N-N compound
KW  - compound family
KW  - GermaNet
KW  - polysemy
KW  - word formation in German
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-104308
SN  - 2367-3877
SS  - 2367-3877
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2021.01.01
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2021.01.01
VL  - 2021
IS  - 1
SP  - 7
EP  - 36
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Siegen
ER  -