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标题：^{Semantic Classification of Urdu Compounds}
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作者：Dr. Abrar Hussain Qureshi ; Dr. Muhmmad Akram
期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：4
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：Compounding is one of the word-formation strategies, languages employ toform new words out of the existing words in order to enrich and update their lexicon.This lexeme can be written as multiple orthographic words, hyphenated words, or as asingle orthographic word (Schmitt, 2000, p.99). It is a very productively and frequentlyobserved phenomenon in world languages; because most of the languages exhibit agreat majority of complex words that are compounds. It is essentially an abbreviatorymechanism that languages prefer over corresponding phrasal or clausal constructions.They are unambiguous because of the fixed word order, and unique in the sense thatthey acquire specialized meaning and, hence, form the immediate choice of the nativespeakers of any language. In a culturally rich language like Urdu, compounds play amajor linguistic role. The present study explores the various combinations of UrduCompounds semantically from lexicographic point of view, suggesting that thesecompounds should be focused in Urdu learner’s dictionaries.
关键词：Language; Compounds; Urdu