Compounding

This chapter provides a survey of the types of compounds found in Dutch. Nominal and adjectival compounding is productive, unlike verbal compounding. Many compounds have constituents that no longer function as words by themselves. Classes of compounds with special properties are numerals, neo-classical compounds, and reduplicative compounds. In the non-head position of compounds, not only words occur, but also phrases and sentences. A special class discussed are synthetic compounds, combinations of compounding and derivation.