Morphosyntactic sources for nominal synthetic compounds in English and Greek

Gianina Iordăchioaia; Artemis Alexiadou; Andreas Pairamidis

doi:10.3726/zwjw.2017.01.04

Morphosyntactic sources for nominal synthetic compounds in English and Greek

Autor/innen

Gianina Iordăchioaia Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8847-6307
Artemis Alexiadou Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Leibniz-Zentrums Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6790-232X
Andreas Pairamidis Universität Stuttgart - Institut für Literaturwissenschaft

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3726/zwjw.2017.01.04

Abstract

We analyze English and Greek nominal synthetic compounds like truck driver and truck driving from a syntactic perspective couched within Distributed Morphology. We derive the main differences between the two languages from the different morphosyntactic status of the non-head nouns, which are roots in Greek but categorized words in English.

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