Further investigations into the nature of phrasal compounding

This collection of papers on phrasal compounding is part of a bigger project whose aims are twofold: First, it seeks to broaden the typological perspective by providing data for as many different languages as possible to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon itself. Second, based on these data which clearly show interaction between syntax and morphology it aims to discuss theoretical models which deal with this kind of interaction in different ways. Models like Generative Grammar, assume components of grammar and a clear-cut distinction between the lexicon (often including morphology) and grammar. Other models like construction grammar do not assume such components and are rather based on a lexicon including constructs. A comparison of these models on the basis of this phenomenon on the morphology-syntax interface makes it possible to assess their descriptive and explanatory power.

Carola Trips > is professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim. She received her PhD from the University of Stuttgart in 2001. Her main research interests have been synchronic and diachronic syntax and morphology, linguistic theory, language contact and lexical semantics. She is the author of a number of articles on these topics and of the following books From OV to VO in Early Middle English (Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 2002), and Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology: The development of -hood, -dom, and -ship in the history of English (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2009). She has also co-edited (with Eric Fuß) Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar (Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 2004), (with Eric Fuß) a special issue of STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung): Morphological blocking and linguistic variation: a typological perspective (Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2009), (with Jaklin Kornfilt) a special issue of STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung): Phrasal compounds from a typological and theoretical perspective; 2015; Berlin: De Gruyter/Mouton.