Programme de l’année 2020-2021 : I. Nouveautés dialectologiques à propos d’une nouvelle édition du palmarès laconien Damonôn ; nouveau corpus Rhamnonte par V. Pétrakos, vol. VI, 2020. — II. Histoire des mots et noms personnes projet ANR Paris, Oxford LGPN-Ling, en préparation Nouveau-Bechtel (Die historischen Personennamen Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit, 1917) analyse étymologique sémantique a...

In English, nominal compounding is a very productive means of word formation and hence of lexical expansion. Recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary online include e.g. bucket list – 'a list of things that a person hopes to experience or achieve before they die (or kick the bucket)' – and trout pout – 'unnaturally swollen lips resulting from the injection of excessive collagen into th...

In standard generative approaches, word-formation rules contain, among other things, information on the semantics of the suffix and the syntactic category (or word class) of possible bases. Based on the general assumption that word-class specification of the input is a crucial ingredient of derivational morphology, far-reaching claims have been made. For example, the Unitary Base Hypothesis (Ar...