Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Why compounding? (by Scalise, Sergio); 3. Section 1. Delimiting the field; 4. The role of syntax and morphology in compounding (by Ackema, Peter); 5. Constraints on compounds and incorporation (by Mithun, Marianne); 6. Compounding versus derivation (by Ralli, Angela); 7. Section 2. At the core of compounding; 8. Units in compounding (by Montermini, Fabio); 9. Compound construction: Schemas or analogy?: A construction morphology perspective (by Booij, Geert); 10. The head in compounding (by Scalise, Sergio); 11. On the lexical semantics of compounds: Non-affixal (de)verbal compounds (by Lieber, Rochelle); 12. The phonology of compounds (by Vogel, Irene); 13. Section 3. Typology and types of compounds; 14. The typology of exocentric compounding (by Bauer, Laurie); 15. Coordination in compounding (by Arcodia, Giorgio F.); 16. Parasynthetic compounds: Data and theory (by Melloni, Chiara); 17. Synthetic compounds: With special reference to German (by Gaeta, Livio); 18. Corpus data and theoretical implications: With special reference to Italian V-N compounds (by Ricca, Davide); 19. Section 4. Quantitative and psycholinguistic aspects of compounding; 20. Frequency effects in compound processing (by Baayen, R. H.); 21. Computational issues in compound processing (by Pirrelli, Vito); 22. Relational competition during compound interpretation (by Gagne, Christina L.); 23. Sign languages and compounding (by Meir, Irit); 24. First language acquisition of compounds (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 25. List of abbreviations; 26. Master list of references; 27. Language index; 28. Subject index