Debonding of compounds in French, English, Dutch and German

Debonding of compounds in French, English, Dutch and German This study will focus on adjectives (and occasionally adverbs) that arise through "debonding" from N+N- or N+A-compounds in French, English, Dutch and German. Debonding is a type of degrammaticalization defined by Norde as "a composite change whereby a bound morpheme in a specific linguistic context becomes a free morpheme" (Norde 2009:186). It typically involves processes such as severance (i.e. decrease in bondedness), flexibilization (i.e. increase in syntactic freedom), scope expansion and recategorialization. In previous studies... Mehr ...