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12 - Lexical Composition

from Part 2 - Inflectional and Derivational Morphology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

By
Mate Kapović
Edited by
Danko Šipka  and
Wayles Browne
Danko Šipka
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Wayles Browne
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

This chapter presents the patterns of composition in Slavic languages. In Slavic, most compounds are nouns (like čel-o-věkъ) and adjectives (like *bos-o-nògъ). Verbal compounds (like blag-o-sloviti ‘to bless’) are less frequent and less productive (as is generally the case in Indo-European languages). The author reviews patterns and phenomena of nominal, adjectival, adverbial, verbal, pronominal, and numeral composition.

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word formationlexical morphologycompositionstemcompoundpostposition
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The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics , pp. 245 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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