2 Ergebnisse.

Mastering one or more languages, language users have to deal with complex morphological and syntactic constructions, which include, among others, inflected forms, compounds and phrases. The present volume focuses on phenomena that reflect how these items are acquired or learned by investigating a great range of different languages, relying on a variety of methodologies and considering data from mono-, bilingual and second-language speakers.

Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this issue by investigating compounds and phrases from a structural, semantic-functional and, crucially, cognitive perspective. The analysis focuses on compounds and phrases that are composed of either an adjective and a noun or two nouns in German, French and English. Having distinguished com...