A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variability

The distinction between syntagmatic compounds of the type N Prep N, such as Fr. jouet d’enfant, and nominal syntagms of the type N Prep N, such as the partially equivalent Fr. jouet pour enfants, remains unclear and vague. This is mainly because the lexical and syntactic status of syntagmatic compou...

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Main Authors: Inga Hennecke, Harald Baayen
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Published: Universitat de València 2018-01-01
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description The distinction between syntagmatic compounds of the type N Prep N, such as Fr. jouet d’enfant, and nominal syntagms of the type N Prep N, such as the partially equivalent Fr. jouet pour enfants, remains unclear and vague. This is mainly because the lexical and syntactic status of syntagmatic compounds still is controversial. In some cases, as in jouet d’enfant and jouet pour enfants, partial equivalent syntagmatic compounds and nominal syntagms may coexist and underlie a specific variation and alternation. In other cases, such as Pt. bracelete de aço and bracelete em aço, two variants of a syntagmatic compound may alternate and coexist. The first part of this paper provides an overview of the current discussion on these two types of constructions. The second part addresses the alternation and variation of syntagmatic compounds and nominal syntagms by means of analysis of large-scale corpus data, the French, Spanish and Portuguese corpus of the TenTen family. Here, the focus lies on the variation of the prepositional internal element of these constructions as well as on a comparison of different word formation patterns.
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spelling doaj-art-2d8fb09f46e041aaaaff574a96edd1c82024-12-18T16:02:09ZcatUniversitat de ValènciaQuaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics1135-416X2444-14492018-01-01222210.7203/qf.22.11305A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variabilityInga Hennecke0Harald Baayen1Universität TübingenUniversität TübingenThe distinction between syntagmatic compounds of the type N Prep N, such as Fr. jouet d’enfant, and nominal syntagms of the type N Prep N, such as the partially equivalent Fr. jouet pour enfants, remains unclear and vague. This is mainly because the lexical and syntactic status of syntagmatic compounds still is controversial. In some cases, as in jouet d’enfant and jouet pour enfants, partial equivalent syntagmatic compounds and nominal syntagms may coexist and underlie a specific variation and alternation. In other cases, such as Pt. bracelete de aço and bracelete em aço, two variants of a syntagmatic compound may alternate and coexist. The first part of this paper provides an overview of the current discussion on these two types of constructions. The second part addresses the alternation and variation of syntagmatic compounds and nominal syntagms by means of analysis of large-scale corpus data, the French, Spanish and Portuguese corpus of the TenTen family. Here, the focus lies on the variation of the prepositional internal element of these constructions as well as on a comparison of different word formation patterns.https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/article/view/11305Compoundsquantitative corpus linguisticslexicon-syntax interfaceRomance
spellingShingle Inga Hennecke
Harald Baayen
A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variability
Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics
Compounds
quantitative corpus linguistics
lexicon-syntax interface
Romance
title A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variability
title_full A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variability
title_fullStr A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variability
title_full_unstemmed A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variability
title_short A quantitative survey of N Prep N constructions in Romance languages and prepositional variability
title_sort quantitative survey of n prep n constructions in romance languages and prepositional variability
topic Compounds
quantitative corpus linguistics
lexicon-syntax interface
Romance
url https://turia.uv.es/index.php/qfilologia/article/view/11305
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