Lexical Structures

A detailed study of compound words in English, which analyses all aspects of their behaviour in the language This book makes two major contributions to our understanding of the formal grammar of English. One is the topic of compounding in English, and in particular the long-standing but unresolved research question of the difference between English compounds and phrases. The other is the theory of Lexicalism, the only version of Generative Grammar to have taken a serious interest in words and th