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Project

The Hierarchical lexicon: a contrastive study of productivitiy and schematicity in Nominal Compounds in German, Dutch and Swedish

The project investigates the productivity and schematicity of nominal the compounds in German, Ductch and Swedish. Lexicological and Corpus-linguistic data are used to document convergences and divergences and to draw conclusions with regard to morphologica! theory (with special reference to the theory of the 'hierarchiecal lexicon' in construction morphology), the Germanic languages, and contrastive linguistics.

Date:1 Jan 2013 →  30 Sep 2018
Keywords:construction morphology, compounding, Swedish, Dutch, the hierarchical lexicon, schematicity, productivity, German
Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies, Linguistics