Modeling the properties of German phrasal compounds within a usage-based constructional approach
- This paper discusses phrasal compounds in German (e.g.“Man-muss-doch-überalles-reden-können”-Credo, ‘one-should-be-able-to-talk-about-everything motto’). It provides the first empirically based investigation and description of this wordformation type within the theoretical framework of construction grammar. While phrasal compounds pose a problem for “traditional” generative approaches, I argue that a usage-based constructional model (e.g. Langacker 1987; Goldberg 2006) which takes into consideration aspects of frequency provides a suitable approach to modeling and explaining their properties. For this purpose, a large inventory of phrasal compounds was extracted from the German Reference Corpus (DeReKo) and modeled as pairings of form and meaning at different levels of specificity and abstractness within a bottom-up process. Overall, this paper not only presents a new and original approach to phrasal compounds, but also offers interesting perspectives for dealing with composition in general.
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| Author: | Katrin Hein |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-64428 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.885123 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96110-013-2 |
| Parent Title (English): | Further investigations into the nature of phrasal compounding |
| Series (Serial Number): | Morphological investigations (1) |
| Publisher: | Language Science Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Editor: | Carola Trips, Jaklin Kornfilt |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2017/09/21 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Konstruktionsgrammatik; Nominalkompositum; Phraseologie; Wortbildung |
| First Page: | 119 |
| Last Page: | 148 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| BDSL-Classification: | Lexikographie, Wörterbücher |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Lexikologie / Etymologie |
| Open Access?: | Ja |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |