Nominal compounds in Dutch and French. Typological differences and additional language acquisition from a Diasystematic Construction Grammar Perspective

Schlücker (2019) points out the commonalities and differences between compounds as word-formation units and syntactically formed multi-word expressions in a wide set of European languages. In spite of the formal differences, both patterns may serve the same purpose and even enter into competition to do so (e.g. Dutch wetenschapsbeleid ‘science policy’ vs wetenschappelijk beleid ‘scientific policy’ (Booij 2019: 105)). However, even within a same genealogical family, languages may significantly vary with respect to their degree of analyticity, as has been argued in the “Germanic Sandw... Mehr ...