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Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an exp

Both compounds and multi-word expressions are complex lexical units, made up of at least two constituents. The most basic difference is that the former are morp

This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of survey

The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Cognitive Approaches to English, an international event organized to mark the 30th

Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.