Metaphorical and metonymical compounds novel and lexicalised ones alike are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an exp
Both compounds and multi-word expressions are complex lexical units, made up of at least two constituents. The most basic difference is that the former are morp
This book presents a comprehensive review of theoretical work on the linguistics and psycholinguistics of compound words and combines it with a series of survey
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the conference Cognitive Approaches to English, an international event organized to mark the 30th