A lexico-semantic analysis of synthetic compounding within the Functional Discourse Grammar model

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.