Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: compounds and their meaning Pius ten Hacken; Part I. Frameworks: 2. English noun-noun compounds in conceptual semantics Ray Jackendoff; 3. Compounding in the lexical semantic framework Rochelle Lieber; 4. Compounding from an onomasiological perspective Pavoltekauer; Part II. Noun-Noun Compounds: 5. Categorizing the modification relations in French relational subordinate [NN]N compounds Pierre J. L. Arnaud; 6. The semantics of NN combinations in Greek Zoe Gavriilidou; 7. The semantics of compounds in Swedish child language Ingmarie Mellenius and Maria Rosenberg; 8. The semantics of primary NN compounds: from form to meaning, and from meaning to form Jess Fernndez-Domi;nguez; Part III. Other Compound Types: 9. An analysis of phrasal compounds in the model of parallel architecture Carola Trips; 10. Adjective-noun compoun Panocov; 12. Three analyses of compounding: a comparison Pius ten Hacken.

"The question of how to determine the meaning of compounds was prominent in early generative morphology, but lost importance after the late 1970s. In the past decade, it has been revived by the emergence of a number of frameworks that are better suited to studying this question than earlier ones. In this book, three frameworks for studying the semantics of compounding are presented by their initiators: Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture, Lieber's theory of lexical semantics, and Štekauer's onomasiological theory. Common to these presentations is a focus on English noun-noun compounds. In the following chapters, these theories are then applied to different types of compounding (phrasal, A+N, neoclassical) and other languages (French, German, Swedish, Greek). Finally, a comparison highlights how each framework offers particular insight into the meaning of compounds. An exciting new contribution to the field, this book will be of interest to morphologists, semanticists and cognitive linguists"--

"In the history of generative grammar, the question of the semantics of compounds was caught up in what Newmeyer (1986) called the "Linguistic Wars", the conflict between generative semantics and interpretive semantics. An important difference between the two sides was the place they attributed to semantics in the architecture of grammar. In generative semantics, the semantic representation was the starting point for syntactic processing. The syntactic level of Deep Structure had been merged with the underlying semantic representation. In interpretive semantics, the semantic representation was derived from a syntactic representation by means of interpretation rules"--