Co-compounds and natural coordination / Bernhard Walchli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wälchli, Bernhard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Coordinate constructions.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Compound words.

Markedness (Linguistics).

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wälchli presents a typological survey and analysis of the co-compound construction, considering topics such as the notion of word, markedness, the syntax and semantics of coordination grammaticalization, and lexical semantics.

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Conventions; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Basics of co-compounds; 1.1.1 The form of co-compounds; 1.1.2 The meaning of co-compounds; 1.1.3 The use of co-compounds; 1.1.4 Differences and similarities with phrase-like tight coordination; 1.1.5 Are co-compounds a form of parallelism?; 1.2 Co-compounds in the linguistic literature; 1.3 Theoretical background, method, and material; 1.3.1 Why this is not a classical typological study?; 1.3.2 Meaning in language; 1.3.3 The linguistic material considered in this study

1.3.4 Summary1.4 Organization of the following chapters; 2 The Marking Patterns of Natural Coordination; 2.1 Different kinds of markedness; 2.2 Relational marking in natural coordination; 2.3 Non-relational marking in natural coordination; 2.3.1 Distinctive non-relational single marking; 2.3.2 Distinctive non-relational double marking; 2.3.3 Distinctive non-relational zero marking; 2.3.4 Iconicity of the distinctive non-relational marking strategies; 2.4 The syntax of single non-relational marking in coordination; 2.4.1 Group inflection

2.4.2 Is coordination with single non-relational marking syntactically asymmetric?2.4.3 Phonological-syntactic non-isomorphism; 2.5 Conclusions; 3 Tight Coordination; 3.1 The first dimension: the length of the coordination; 3.2 The second dimension: the marking patterns of coordination; 3.3 The third dimension: the semantic correlates of tight coordination; 3.3.1 Group vs. separate coordination; 3.3.2 Intersective vs. non-intersective coordination; 3.3.3 Overlapping vs. non-overlapping coordination; 3.3.4 Contrast; 3.3.5 Non-exhaustive vs. exhaustive listing coordination; 3.3.6 Disjunction

3.3.7 Explicative disjunction3.3.8 Repair and pseudo-repair; 3.3.9 Enumeration; 3.3.10 Pseudo-coordination; 3.3.11 Conclusions; 3.4 Conclusions; 4 Co-compounds as a Lexical Class Type; 4.1 The traditional morphological (and indirectly syntactic) approach to compounding; 4.2 Are (co-)compounds really words?; 4.2.1 What is word? Laying out the problem; 4.2.2 Deconstructing the notion of word; 4.2.3 Criteria for the 'wordhood' of compounds (with special reference to co-compounds); 4.3 An alternative approach to co-compounds: lexical classes

4.3.1 The middle as a typical example for a lexical class type4.3.2 More examples of lexical class types; 4.3.3 Co-compounds as a lexical class type; 4.3.4 Reconsidering lexicalization and the lexicon; 4.3.5 Differences and similarities of lexical and grammatical classes; 4.4 The form of co-compounds and the problem of formal non-distinctiveness; 4.4.1 Distinguishing co-compounds and sub-compounds; 4.4.2 Distinguishing co-compounds and serial verbs; 4.4.3 Distinguishing co-compounds and coordination; 4.5 Meronomic structure; 4.6 Conclusions; 5 A Semantic Classification of Co-compounds

5.1 The basis of the semantic classification

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-309) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-956332-2

0-19-153476-5

1-4237-8869-9

9786610755301

1-280-75530-X

OCLC:

437924270