Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer

English Compounds and their Spelling

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Produktbeschreibung

An original study of the formation of compounds, and what syntactic, structural and semantic criteria determine their spelling and usage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 758g
• ISBN-13: 9781107197848
• ISBN-10: 1107197848
• Artikelnr.: 50114853

Autorenporträt

Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She has published widely on many diverse topics. Her books include Consociation and Dissociation: An Empirical Study of Word-Family Integration in English and German (2008), Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English Volume 16: Can We Predict Linguistic Change? (2015) and Variational Text Linguistics: Revisiting Register in English (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Theoretical Background: 2. Delimitating the compound concept
3. The normative background
Part II. Empirical Study of English Compound Spelling: 4. Material and method
5. Potential determinants of English compound spelling
Part III. Modelling English Compound Spelling: 6. Compound spelling heuristics
7. Modelling English compound spelling
8. Summary and conclusion.