Main compounding types in Spanish: synchronic issues

• Autores: Cristina Buenafuentes de la Mata
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology / coord. por Antonio Fábregas Alfaro, Víctor Acedo Matellán, Grant Amstrong, María Cristina Cuervo, Isabel Pujol Payet, 2021, ISBN 978-0-429-31819-1, págs. 285-302
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter offers an account of different existing types of compounds on the basis of the principal parameters applied for their classification, which, in turn, go beyond the grammatical categorization of the constituents. These parameters include the morphological nature of the constituents, as well as the identification of the head and the internal syntactic relations occurring amongst the constituents. The chapter describes the general characteristics of the most productive compounding types in Spanish. The traditional classification of compounds in Spanish is based on the grammatical category of a compound and its inner constituents. With respect to the first parameter, as occurs in syntax, in compounding the head is the element which determines the morphological, syntactic and semantic properties of the entire resulting construction. Another argument supporting the consideration of compounding as a kind of reduced syntax is that the syntactic relations taking place in phrasal syntax can also occur inside the compounds.