ABSTRACT
Fisiak, J. (ed.) 1984. Historical syntax. The Hague. Gerritsen, M. and D.Stein. 1992. Internal and external factors in syntactic change. Berlin and New
York.
In Marchand’s (1960) terminology, a border case in historical word formation between derivation and composition, in which the first constituent forms not a word, but rather a word group, e.g. watchmaker, heartbreaking. ( also verbal vs root compound)
References
Fanselow, G. 1988. Word syntax and semantic principles. In G.Booij and J.van Marle (eds), Yearbook of morphology. Dordrecht. 95-122.
