Searching for Universals in Compounding

Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 76, Issue , 2009, Pages 101-128

  Guevara, Emiliano ^a   Scalise, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

classification of compounds; compounding; typological database; Universals; word formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101982866     PISSN: 09244670     EISSN: 22150358     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8825-4_6     Document Type: Chapter

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