The study of compounds is currently at the center of attention in many areas of both theoretical and applied linguistics. This volume brings together contributi

The volume brings together a well-selected collection of twelve articles providing a comprehensive and very informative summary of contemporary work on lexical

Over the last decades, it has been hotly debated whether and how compounds, i.e. word-formations, and phrases differ from each other. The book discusses this is

One of the core challenges in linguistics is elucidating compounds—their formation as well as the reasons their structure varies between languages. This book

The present volume contains selected papers from the 14th International Morphology Meeting held in Budapest, 13–16 May 2010, organized under the auspices of th