{"product_id":"compounds-main-properties-and-problems-von-philipp-kock","title":"Compounds - Main Properties and Problems","description":"\u003cp\u003eStudienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Englisch - Pädagogik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: 2,7, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Anglistik), Veranstaltung: Morphology and Syntax, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis termpaper deals with compounding, an important process of word formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIngo Plag wrote that compounding was the most productive type of word formation but\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso the most controversial one, he forewarns his readers because ¿compounding is a field\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof study where intricate problems abound, numerous issues remain unsolved and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econvincing solutions are generally not so easy to find¿ (Plag 2006, 132).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDue to this high productivity, compounding can be regarded as the most fundamental\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomplex cognitive representations of the mental lexicon (Libben 2006, vi).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompounds are ¿extremely widespread among the world¿s languages and represent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperhaps the easiest way to form a new cognitive representation from two or more existing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eones¿ (Libben 2006, vi). Laurie Bauer claims that ¿no known language is without\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecompounds, and in many languages compounds are the main type of a new lexeme¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Bauer 1988, 33\/34).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis termpaper focuses on compounds and their properties including subcategories,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eproductivity and the problems that can occur among compounds like questions of stress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand categorization difficulties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first part will deal with the definition of compounds, all the compound subcategories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand also with productivity of compounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the second part, questions of stress and difficulties of categorization will be examined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640731121\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640731121","offer_id":39441868488797,"sku":"9783640731121","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/9b74b59f-addf-40da-be92-2993b8b81159.jpg?v=1777698704","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/compounds-main-properties-and-problems-von-philipp-kock","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}