Compounding and variational morphology: the analysis of inflection in Spanish compounds

This paper analyzes the morphological variation related to gender and number in Spanish compounding such as plural noun in [V+N]ncompounds (ellavaplatos, not el lavaplato; el cazamariposas, not *el cazamariposa), the gender and number asymmetries between the actual compound and its parts (cabezafem....

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Main Author: Cristina Buenafuentes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2014-05-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/2828