The role of syntax in the productivity of German N+N compounds. A diachronic corpus study
- This paper studies the morphological productivity of German N+N compounding patterns from a diachronic perspective. It argues that the productivity of compounds increases due to syntactic influence from genitive constructions (“improper compounds”) in Early New High German. Both quantitative and qualitative productivity measures are adapted from derivational morphology and tested on compound data from the Mainz Corpus of (Early) New High German (1500–1710).
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| Author: | Kristin KopfORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-78967 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/103726/zwjw.2018.01.03 |
| ISSN: | 2367-3877 |
| Parent Title (German): | Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of word formation |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/09/11 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Korpus <Linguistik>; Morphologie; Nominalkompositum; Sprachgeschichte |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 61 |
| Last Page: | 91 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Sprachgeschichte |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |