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B. K¨ohnlein
A last tenet in the proposed analysis of complex place names concerns their lexical
storage: following a proposal put forward in Berm´udez-Otero (
2012
), I assume that
word-level derivatives can be stored as one lexical entry while retaining their struc-
tural complexity; Berm´udez-Otero refers to this type of storage as
analytic listing
(see also Kaye
1995
). A related concept of lexical storage based on psycholinguis-
tic evidence has been proposed in Clahsen and Neubauer (
2010
, see also references
therein). Applying Berm´udez-Otero’s model to the (complex) names under discus-
sion implies that speakers will not necessarily have to compute these names ‘on line’
each time they use them, although they consist of two morphemes; instead, they can
be stored in the lexicon as complex units. The grammar has access to these struc-
tures, which is reflected in the regular phonological / morphological behavior of these
complex forms.
The paper is organized as follows: Section
2
presents the relevant data and
discusses seeming violations of well-established generalizations in the phonologi-
cal system of Dutch. Section
3
contains a morphological analysis of the patterns.
Section
4
discusses a previous analysis of complex place names by Zwart (
2003
).
Based on a morphological analysis of names for ball games, I argue in Section
5
that
words with comparable structural characteristics to the ones proposed in my analysis
can be found outside of place naming. Furthermore, I provide examples showing that
in the world’s languages, the occurrence of synchronically opaque classifiers is not
restricted to place names. Section
6
concludes the paper and briefly discusses issues
for future research.
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