Preliminary notes on `Compounding: meanings' - DG

Two useful sources of information on the meanings of compounds are provided by Marchand (see [27]) and Brekle (see Brekle [5], and references there).

The following notation can be used to abbreviate references to the different cases:

1. Sign variables: A, B, C, where A, B, C range over signs; C ranges over complex signs.
2. Sign constants: a, b, c, where a, b, c are signs.
3. Model variables: P, O, S, where P is a phonetic model, O is an orthographic model, and S is a semantic model.
4. Composition and interpretation:
   1. Composition:
   2. Phonetic interpretation:
   3. Orthographic interpretation:
   4. Semantic interpretation:
   5. Interpretation is compositional:
      
      
      

Discussion: Look for compounds to which the following constraints apply:

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. There is some d such that

Hint: Examine the meanings of cherry cake, redhead, baker-confectioner

Are the meanings of compounds compositional (transparent)? If not, what are they?