TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kristin Kopf
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
JF  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung / Journal of Word Formation
IS  - 1
VL  - 2
SN  - 2367-3877
TI  - The role of syntax in the productivity of German N+N compounds. A diachronic corpus study
DO  - 10.3726/zwjw.2018.01.03
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1157116
N2  - This paper studies the morphological productivity of German N+N compounding patterns from a diachronic perspective. It argues that the productivity of compounds increases due to syntactic influence from genitive constructions (“improper compounds”) in Early New High German. Both quantitative and qualitative productivity measures are adapted from derivational morphology and tested on compound data from the Mainz Corpus of (Early) New High German (1500–1710).
ER  -