Compounding is a universal word-formation strategy across human languages
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The retrieved sources document compounding in specific individual languages such as Maká, Kalapalo, and Baure, but do not provide comprehensive evidence establishing its universality across all human languages.
The Baure language (Arawakan) can be described as polysynthetic, agglutinating, head-marking, and classifying. Verbs are the most complex parts of speech, with various levels of derivational and inflectional morphology. Baure nouns are involved in fewer morphological processes, such as number and locative case marking. However, productive compounding leads to additional morphological complexity of nouns.Our broad understanding of ‘compounding’ includes bound lexical morphemes, such as classifiers and locative stems. We argue that we are actually dealing with one structure in Baure, based on a right head that is modified by any component to its left, be it that the elements in the compounds are bound or free forms. The construction is structurally also similar to noun or classifier incorporation to verbs. Keywords: Arawakan; compounding; incorporation; classifiers; nominal morphology; verbal compounding
Productive compounding in Baure (Arawakan) Productive compounding in Baure (Arawakan) Publication Studies in Language Companion Series Record type Book chapter Published 14 November 2014 Authors Femmy Admiraal | Swintha Danielsen DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.163.05adm The publisher of this work supports multiple resolution .
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Compounds in the Southern Cariban language Kalapalo include (a) extended verb stems formed by nominal roots prefixed to basic verb stems and more commonly (b) clitic clustering involving two or more members of one of the four different semantic types of this word class. Clitic compounds have important syntactic and semantic functions in the context of clause chaining and interclausal reference marking. Keywords: compounding; extended verb stems; clitic clustering; interclausal reference marking; switch-reference
Compounding in Kalapalo, a Southern Cariban language Compounding in Kalapalo, a Southern Cariban language Publication Studies in Language Companion Series Record type Book chapter Published 14 November 2014 Authors Ellen B. Basso DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.163.09bas The publisher of this work supports multiple resolution .
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This paper explores the formation of compounds in Maká and intends to characterize these constructions in formal, semantic and typological terms. To this end, we have considered elements that constitute compounds and the resulting lexemes, as well as the relationship between constituents. We also seek to contribute to the discussion about the parameters that should be taken into account for lexemes to be considered compounds, and whether they correspond to the features found in languages from the same family or to a typological universal. In order to do so, we also compare the findings to derivational strategies, and discuss the sometimes unclear boundaries between the phenomena of composition and derivation. Keywords: Maká; Gran Chaco region; composition; derivational morphology; typology
Towards a characterization of compounding in Maká Towards a characterization of compounding in Maká Publication Studies in Language Companion Series Record type Book chapter Published 14 November 2014 Authors Temis L. Tacconi DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.163.03tac The publisher of this work supports multiple resolution .
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