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Scalise, Sergio and Antonietta Bisetto (2009), 'The classification of compounds.' In Lieber and P. Štekauer (ed.),
The Oxford handbook of compounding
, 34-53. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Linguistic Notions
Compounding
A compound can be defined in very basic terms as a word that is made up of two or more words. Compounds thus show properties of both morphological formation (the whole constitutes a word) and sy...