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Compounding in Modern Greek
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ISBN: 9789400749603 Year: 2013 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

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One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds—their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages. This book on Modern Greek rises to the challenge with a meticulous treatment of its diverse, intricate compounds, a study as grounded in theory as it is rich in data. Enhancing our knowledge of compounding and word-formation in general, its exceptional scope is a worthy model for linguists, particularly morphologists, and offers insights for students of syntax, phonology, dialectology and typology, among others. The author examines first-tier themes such as the order and relations of constituents, headedness, exocentricity, and theta-role saturation. She shows how Modern Greek compounding relates to derivation and inflection, and charts the boundaries between compounds and phrases. Exploring dialectically variant compounds, and identifying historical changes, the analysis extends to similarly formed compounds in wholly unrelated languages.


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Proceedings of the first international conference of Modern Greek dialects and linguistic theory (Patras, Greece, Oct. 12-14, 2000)
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Year: 2001 Publisher: Patras : University of Patras,

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Borrowed Morphology
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ISBN: 1501500376 1614513201 9781614513209 9781501500374 9781614513216 161451321X 9781614515562 1614515565 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues, such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.


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The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation
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ISBN: 1474481124 1474448216 1474448208 9781474448215 9781107091733 9781107464544 9781474448222 1474448224 9781474448208 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation.


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Derivational Networks Across Languages
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ISBN: 9783110686630 9783110686807 9783110686494 3110686635 3110686805 311068649X Year: 2020 Volume: 340 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This pioneering research brings a new insight into derivational processes in terms of theory, method and typology.Theoretically, it conceives of derivation as a three-dimensional system. Methodologically, it introduces a range of parameters for the evaluation of derivational networks, including the derivational role, combinability and blocking effects of semantic categories, the maximum derivational potential and its actualization in relation to simple underived words, and the maximum and average number of orders of derivation.Each language-specific chapter has a unified structure, which made it possible to identify – in the final, typologically oriented chapter – the systematicity and regularity in developing derivational networks in a sample of forty European languages and in a few language genera and families. This is supported by considerations about the role of word-classes, morphological types, and the differences and similarities between word-formation processes of the languages belonging to the same genus/family.

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