摘要：Compounding has received little attention in linguistic typology and, in particular, in studies onlinguistic universals. This paper seeks to study compounding as a universal process with specialreference to Arabic nominal compounding. It aims to point out whether compounding is auniversal process in light of Standard Arabic nominal compounding. It attempts to extrapolateuniversal tendencies in compounding with respect to the following features of compounding: theidentity of compounding, classification of compounds, headedness of the compounds in theworld's languages, relationships between the constituents of compounds, and universality ofcompounding. It proposes lines of empirical research and methodological suggestions towardsthe study of universals in compounding. The focus of the study is on nominal compoundsconsisting of two lexemes.
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