Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination

Bernhard Wälchli received his master's degree in Slavic and Baltic studies at the University of Bern in 1997 and his Ph.D. in General Linguistics at Stockholm University in 2003. After completing research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of Konstanz, he returned to the University of Bern, where he is now a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor. His publications include papers on the typology of motion events, the repetitive, modality, and areal phenomena in the Circum-Baltic languages. He is co-editor of New Challenges in Typology (Mouton de Gruyter, 2007) and has taught at the universities of Bern, Konstanz, Stockholm, and Zürich. His current research includes work on primary-data typology (especially lexical typology and areal typology of motion events), the structure of the lexicon, and Baltic linguistics.

Review from previous edition an impressive work ... If Walchli's study has the influence it deserves, it may lead to a fashionable and enlightening way of merging morphological and discourse studies.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Marking Patterns of Natural Coordination ; 3. Tight Coordination ; 4. Co-compounds as a Lexical Class Type ; 5. A Semantic Classification of Co-compounds ; 6. The Areal Distribution of Co-compounds in the Languages of Eurasia ; 7. Some Considerations about the Diachronic Evolution of Co-compounds ; 8. Conclusions ; Appendix ; References ; Index of Persons ; Index of Languages ; Index of Subjects