Compounding in Modern Greek

• Main Author: Ralli, Angela (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Studies in Morphology, 2
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Greek language.; Phonology.; Syntax.; Greek.

One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds—their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages. This book on Modern Greek rises to the challenge with a meticulous treatment of its diverse, intricate compounds, a study as grounded in theory as it is...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Tables
• Introduction
• Defining a Greek compound
• 2. Grammatical category and constituents
• 3. Compound marking
• 4. Stress and morphological structure
• 5. Headedness and classification
• 6. Constraints, allomorphy and form of constituents
• 7. Coordinative compounds
• 8. Verbal and deverbal compounds
• 9. Deverbal compounds with bound stems
• 10. Compounding versus derivation and inflection
• 11. Compounds versus phrases
• Appendix I  Greek: a brief history . Periodization . Geography – Dialectal variation . References
• Appendix II Greek inflection: an overview . Verbal inflection . Nominal inflection . References
• Appendix III List of compounds
• Subject Index.