Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an exp

This controversial new book addresses the linguistic problems around compounds: words which sit on the borderline of syntax and morphology.

The question of how to determine the meaning of compounds was prominent in early generative morphology, but lost importance after the late 1970s. In the past de

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of survey