Word formation in Thadou

investigating word-formation process of compounding in

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Productivity in Word Formation

Word-formation in English

published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Plag, Ingo. Word-formation in English / Ingo Plag. p. cm. – (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and indexes. Contents Preface page xi Abbreviations and notational conve...

Word Formation in Computational Linguistics

Where does word formation information play a role in computational linguistics? Think of information retrieval where the parts of a word might contain the important information. If we want to find information in German on relaxation techniques, we need to look for the verb entspannen 'to relax' as well as for the derived noun Entspannung 'relaxation' and compounds containing Entspannung, such a...

Compositionality, of, word-formation

One of the criteria generally applied in distinguishing lexical processes from syntactic ones is compositionality: the standard assumption is that syntactic processes have transparent (compositional) semantics while word-formation is semantically opaque. In this paper I will argue that this assumption is false: certain processes which are generally held to be syntactic are compositional only to...