Chapter published in:
Nominal Compound Acquisition
Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 61] 2017
► pp. 1–18

Introduction

| | University of Vienna
| | İstanbul Bilgi University
| | University of Lausanne
| | University of Cologne
Article outline
  • 1.Compounding
    • 1.1Aim of the volume
    • 1.2Compounding preferences
    • 1.3Compounding vs. phrasal syntax
    • 1.4Classification of compounds
  • 2.Methodology and theoretical approach
    • 2.1Longitudinal study of spontaneous speech
    • 2.2Distinctions between phases
      • 2.2.1Premorphology
      • 2.2.2Protomorphology
      • 2.2.3Core morphology
  • 3.Relations between input and output
  • 4.Linguistic typology
  • 5.Summaries of chapters
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.61.01dre
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