Compounds and Compounding: 155 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics

Compounds and Compounding\nby Laurie Bauer\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Laurie Bauer\nTitle: Compounds and Compounding\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Grammar, syntax and morphology\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781108402552\nISBN-10: 1108402550\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAre compounds words or phrases - or are they neither or both? How should we classify compounds? How can we deal with the fact that the relationship between the elements of sugar pill (''pill made of sugar'') is different from that in sea-sickness pill (''pill to prevent sea-sickness'')? Are compounds a linguistic universal? How much do languages vary in the way their compounds work? Why do we need compounds, when there are other ways of creating the s.