The Classification of Compounds

Abstract

This chapter suggests that all the existing proposals for classifying the huge variety of compounds of natural languages are – for one reason or another – unsatisfactory, and proposes a classification of compounds based on criteria which are as consistent as possible and, hopefully, universally valid. It is organized as follows. Section 3.2 discusses the major problems arising from previous attempts at classifying compounds. Section 3.3 analyses the classification proposed in Bisetto and Scalise (2005). Section 3.4 proposes amendments to the previous classification and discusses the basis for the amendments. Finally, Section 3.5 touches on a number of residual problems and presents some conclusions.

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