29.2396, Books: English Compounds and their Spelling: Sanchez-Stockhammer

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Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 09:37:36
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: English Compounds and their Spelling: Sanchez-Stockhammer

 


Title: English Compounds and their Spelling 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/english-compounds-and-their-spelling?format=HB#MZivtDbbL3rR810A.97 


Author: Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107197848 Pages: 416 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107197848 Pages: 416 Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107197848 Pages: 416 Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable
question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation
(far-off) or solid spelling (airport) for individual compounds. While some
compounds commonly occur with alternative spellings, others show a very clear
bias for one form. This book tests over 60 hypotheses and explores the
patterns underlying the spelling of English compounds from a variety of
perspectives. Based on a sample of 600 biconstituent compounds with identical
spelling in all reference works in which they occur (200 each with open,
hyphenated and solid spelling), this empirical study analyses large amounts of
data from corpora and dictionaries and concludes that the spelling of English
compounds is not chaotic but actually correlates with a large number of
statistically significant variables. An easily applicable decision tree is
derived from the data and an innovative multi-dimensional prototype model is
suggested to account for the results.
   
   
1. Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Background: 2. Delimitating the compound
concept; 3. The normative background; Part II. Empirical Study of English
Compound Spelling: 4. Material and method; 5. Potential determinants of
English compound spelling; Part III. Modelling English Compound Spelling: 6.
Compound spelling heuristics; 7. Modelling English compound spelling; 8.
Summary and conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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