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NN and VV Coordinate Compounds
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: Received: 21 December 2023 / Approved: 21 December 2023 / Online: 22 December 2023 (03:46:53 CET)
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Nagano, A.; Shimada, M. NN and VV Coordinate Compounds. Languages 2024, 9, 143. Nagano, A.; Shimada, M. NN and VV Coordinate Compounds. Languages 2024, 9, 143.
Abstract
Broadly speaking, binominal and biverbal lexical constructions have been studied independently in different research traditions and frameworks. It is true that the two do not necessarily have overlapping areal distributions, but the fundamental question remains whether Indo-European NN compounds and Transeurasian VV compounds have nothing in common. From a purely theoretical perspective also, the cross-categorial parallelism is worthy of serious investigation because a theory of the process of compounding that inherits the spirit of X-bar theory strives to capture commonalities among various compounding patterns and category-specific constraints observed within and across languages. Against this background, a cross-categorial comparison, not within but across languages, is made of coordinative binominal and biverbal constructions. NN and VV coordinate compounds from English and Japanese are examined in detail using the methodology of contrastive morphology and decompositional lexical semantics. It is shown that dvandva is possible not only in NN but also in VV coordinate compounds and furthermore that the dvandva-appositive distinction in NN coordinate compounds recurs in VV coordinate compounds.
Keywords
compounding; coordination; dvandva; appositive; headedness; noun-verb parallelism; number; aspect; feature
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory
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