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‘Phrasal compounds in Icelandic’
Keywords: phrasal compounds and derivations, Lexical Integrity Hypothesis, lexicon,
syntactic structures, lexicalized structures
The main purpose of this paper is to give an overview of phrasal compounds in Icelandic
and address the question to what extent the phrases in phrasal compounds originate in
syntax. Phrasal compounds (and partly derivations) are interesting because the non-head
is a syntactic phrase (syntax) and the head is a word or in some cases derivational suffix
(lexicon). In terms of linguistic models that build on separate and autonomous modules of
language production, from lexicon to syntax, this combination in compounds seems rather
strange, i.e., a syntactic first part and a morphological second part. To explain this, one has
to consider the possibility that there is an opening between syntax and lexicon in such a
way that the composition process in the lexicon has access to the syntactic structures in
syntax. Otherwise one would have to say that syntactic phrases in compounds formed by
productive processes were also formed or stored in the lexicon.
Þorsteinn G. Indriðason
Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier
Universitetet i Bergen
Sydnesplassen 7
N-5007 Bergen, NORGE
torsteinn.indridason@lle.uib.no
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