TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brunner, Annelen
A1  - Engelberg, Stefan
A1  - Hein, Katrin
T1  - The distribution of constituent words in nominal compounds and its impact on semantic interpretation: an empirical study
T2  - Zeitschrift für Wortbildung : ZWJW = Journal of word formation
N2  - The paper explores factors that influence the distribution of constituent words of compounds over the head and modifier position. The empirical basis for the study is a large database of German compounds, annotated with respect to the morphological structure of the compound and the semantic category of the constituents. The study shows that the polysemy of the constituent word, its constituent family size, and its semantic category account for tendencies of the constituent word to occur in either modifier or head position. Furthermore, the paper explores the degree to which the semantic category combination of head and modifier word, e.g., x=substance and y=artifact, indicates the semantic relation between the constituents, e.g., y_consists_of_x.
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Nominalkompositum
KW  - Sprachstatistik
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70531
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-705312
SN  - 2367-3877
VL  - 5.2021
IS  - 1
SP  - 7
EP  - 36
PB  - Peter Lang
CY  - Berlin
ER  -