Morphological variation in Japanese compounds: The case of hoodai and the notion of “compound-specific submeaning”

Penultimate accent in Japanese predicates and the verb–noun distinction

“…Because I do not take a stance on the categorial issue of keeyoodoosi here, I use the original neutral terminology in this section (cf. also Nishiyama, 1999;Kageyama, 2010;Namiki, 2010).…”

4. Affixoids and constructional idioms

“…In addition, this format expresses that the specific bound meaning is potentially productive, because the other position in the constructional idiom is a variable. 2 2 The relevance of the notion constructional idiom at the word level for the proper characterization of the affixoid behaviour of words has also been argued to be relevant for languages such as Greek (Ralli et al 2008), French ( Van Goethem 2008, Mandarin Chinese (Arcodia 2011) and Japanese (Namiki 2010). A constructional idiom analysis of some German affixoids (-stück, -fall and -werk) is defended in Zifonun (2012).…”