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THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS GEBUNDEN

This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology  and
combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail. It deals with data from several domains
of linguistics and contributes to an integration of findings from various subdisciplines of
linguistics into a common model of the architecture of language. It presents applications and
extensions of the model of Construction Morphology to a wide range of languages. Construction
Morphology is one of the theoretical paradigms in present-day morphology. It makes use of
concepts of Construction Grammar for the analysis of word formation and inflection. Complex
words are seen as constructions  that is  pairs of form and meaning. Morphological patterns are
accounted for by construction schemas. These are the recipes for coining new words and word
forms  and they motivate the properties of existing complex words. Both schemas and individual
words are stored  and hence there is no strict separation of lexicon and grammar. In addition
to abstract schemas there are subschemas for subclasses of complex words with specific
properties. This architecture of the grammar is in harmony with findings from other empirical
domains of linguistics such as language acquisition  word processing  and language change.

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