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SUBMITTER: Alexiadou A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283911 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in psychology 20200603
In this paper, I discuss nominal compound formation in language contact situations, the question being of how compounding in language mixing can inform both theories of mixing and theories of word-hood. This contributes to our further understanding of how word formation operates in cases of language mixing and what exactly is being mixed in mixing, i.e., words vs. units smaller than words, e.g., stems or roots. Compounding is important to answer this question, as languages differ with respect to ...[more]