Non-classifying compounds in German

Bleaching, productivity and debonding of prefixoids

“…Bildhauer, 2012 and2013). This corpus is eminently suited to the study of language change in progress: it provides similar data sets from different languages, among them German and Swedish (see Table 1), and a substantial portion of these data are from informal sources, which is the typical locus of recent and innovative constructions.…”

“…The difference between these two types of constructions is also reflected by their prosody: in (12), stress is on the first compound member ('Riesenwitz), whereas in (13), it is on the second (Riesen'witz; Katharina Müller, p.c.). On stress patterns in different kinds of German compounds see also Schlücker (2013).…”

“…Such morphemes "which look like parts of compounds, and do occur as lexemes, but have a specific and more restricted meaning when used as part of a compound" are called 'affixoids' (Booij, 2009, p. 208; see also Booij, 2010;Booij & Hüning, 2014;Klara, 2012;Leuschner, 2010;Oebel, 2012;Sachs 2012). It has been argued that the emergence of prefixoids can be seen as an instance of grammaticalization, since they "have lost their original lexical meaning more or less, and have acquired a more general and abstract meaning of intensification" (Booij, 2010, p. 58; see also Van Goethem, 2008, 2011Van Goethem & Hiligsmann, 2014). As a result, a cline can be drawn from determinative compounds with literal reference to a giant (e.g.…”

Special issue: Different perspectives on proper noun modifiers

“…The central focus of several studies (Rosenbach 2007(Rosenbach , 2010Schlücker 2013;Breban 2018) is the puzzle of how to account for proper noun modifiers in models of the noun phrase. Proper noun modifiers can have an identifying function.…”

“…The first scholars to single them out as special were Anette Rosenbach and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Koptjevskaja-Tamm & Rosenbach 2005). Since then, there has emerged a small but growing body of studies on English (Rosenbach 2006(Rosenbach , 2007(Rosenbach , 2010Breban 2018), Swedish (Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2009 and German (Zifonun 2010a(Zifonun , 2010bSchlücker 2013Schlücker , 2018, which rather than fully explaining the phenomenon raise a variety of interesting questions and topics to explore. These questions pertain to different areas of linguistics and require different empirical data and methods to answer them.…”