What is it about?
In this article I analyze synthetic compounds as instances of morphosyntactic adaptation, trying to account for the great semantic versatility of the phenomenon.
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Why is it important?
This article shows that the architecture of Functional Discourse Grammar, a top-down model where lexemes are stored separately from frames, is well equipped to deal with synthetic compounding.
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This page is a summary of: Towards a comprehensive account of English -er deverbal synthetic compounds in Functional Discourse Grammar, WORD Structure, March 2018, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/word.2018.0114.
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