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The grammaticalization and disappearance of adpositions in nominal compounds

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California Linguistic Notes, (2007)

Abstract

This article identifies a semantically motivated typology of lexicalization paths to account for the formation of nominal compounds from complex noun phrases. The typology includes coordination, semantic roles and possession, which, systematically, seems to be the origin of various subclasses of appositional, copulative and endocentric compounds, and the typology has serious implications for linguistic theory.

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