Why We Don't Cardrive or Bookread, but Slavedrive and Lipread : A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Verbal Compounds and Pseudo-Compounds in English

Why We Don't Cardrive or Bookread, but Slavedrive and Lipread : A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Verbal Compounds and Pseudo-Compounds in English

Angela Lamberty

Språken
FörlagBüchner-Verlag
ISBN9783941310582

Compounding is a highly productive word-formation pattern in the English language. In light of this, it is counterintuitive that English lacks a general word-formation rule for genuine verbal compounds and those appear to be very rare. But for what reason does verbal composition disqualify as a prod