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Angela Ralli
Compound markers and parametric variation
Keywords: compound, compound marker, paradigmatic inflection, stem-based compounding, word-based compounding
This paper investigates the existence of a compound marker in Modern Greek and other typologically different languages. It argues that its presence relates to a parame-ter of an overtly realized paradigmatic inflection, and that its systematic or non-systematic character depends on the type of constituency with respect to the catego-ries of stem or word that are involved in compound formation. It also shows that with respect to its origin, the marker may be the synchronic residue of a phonological epenthesis, or the product of evolution of other functional or lexical elements that have undergone the process of morphologization.
STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag
Print ISSN: 0942-2919
Volume: 61, 01/2008
Pages: 19 - 38