Further investigations into the nature of phrasal compounding: Morphological Investigations 1

Carola Trips > is professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim. She received her PhD from the University of Stuttgart in 2001. Her main research interests have been synchronic and diachronic syntax and morphology, linguistic theory, language contact and lexical semantics. She is the author of a number of articles on these topics and of the following books From OV to VO in Early Middle English (Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 2002), and Lexical semantics and diachronic morphology: The development of -hood, -dom, and -ship in the history of English (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2009). She has also co-edited (with Eric Fuß) Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar (Amsterdam/New York: John Benjamins, 2004), (with Eric Fuß) a special issue of STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung): Morphological blocking and linguistic variation: a typological perspective (Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2009), (with Jaklin Kornfilt) a special issue of STUF (Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung): Phrasal compounds from a typological and theoretical perspective; 2015; Berlin: De Gruyter/Mouton.