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| Title | Complex non-compound words in Swedish |
| Author/s | Eva Klingvall |
| Department/s |
English Studies
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| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Alternative location (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.14... Restricted Access (Alternative Location) |
| Publication/Series | Studia Linguistica |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 - 31 |
| Document type | Journal article |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell |
| Abstract | This paper is concerned with the structure of Swedish complex words with a past participle in the right-hand position and one of the elements latt/svar/snabb/trog/tung(easy/difficult/fast/slow/heavy) in the left-hand position. Although these words look very similar to compound participles, such as hembakad (homebaked), they have systematically different properties. Compounds in Swedish are right-headed and behave largely like their heads. These complex words, however, do not behave syntactically like the participles in their right-hand position. The words differ from compounds also in failing to entail the meaning of their right-hand segment. I argue that these properties can be explained if we analyze the words as left-headed rather than right-headed. The adjective in the left-hand position is thus the head of the word, taking the participle as its complement. |
| Subject |
Languages and Literatures |
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