A NEW TYPOLOGY OF ENGLISH AND SERBIAN NOMINAL COMPOUNDS
A NEW TYPOLOGY OF ENGLISH AND SERBIAN NOMINAL COMPOUNDS
Author(s): Sanja Krimer-GaborovićSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: creativity of compounds; endocentric binominal compounds; linguistic productivity of compounds; typology of nominal compounds
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is twofold: to elucidate the phenomena of linguistic productivity and creativity in English and Serbian compounds, and, mirroring the title, to offer a new, syntactico–semantic, typology of English and Serbian nominal compounds. In order to achieve this, the paper is organized in the following way: some general considerations are dealt with in Part 1; productivity and creativity are the focus of Part 2; Part 3 explores criteria serving to distinguish an endocentric binominal compound from a parallel syntactic group; Part 4 offers a tabular classification of English and Serbian nominal compounds; and in Part 5 the main points of the paper are summarized.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 277-288
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English