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

This book provides a brand new treatment of Ancient Greek (AG) verb-first (V1) compounds. In AG, the very existence of this type is surprising: its left-oriente

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of survey

Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Gree

This collection of papers on phrasal compounding is part of a bigger project whose aims are twofold: First, it seeks to broaden the typological perspective by p