naa a22 4500 510742319 CHVBK 20180411083032.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11525-013-9214-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11525-013-9214-8 Renner Vincent Centre de Recherche en Terminologie et Traduction, University of Lyon, 86 rue Pasteur, 69007, Lyon, France aut English cum , a borrowed coordinator turned complex-compound marker [Elektronische Daten] [Vincent Renner] This article takes issue with the traditional view of English compounds such as governess-cum-piano-teacher, according to which the medial morpheme -cum- is insignificant. The study is first centered on the appearance of the linking element in the English language. New insight into its distribution and function is then provided by scrutinizing a list of 259 compounds extracted from a present-day newspaper corpus. It is found that -cum- appears exclusively in non-institutionalized coordinate nominal and adjectival compounds and that it plays a distinctive role which sets -cum- compounds apart from asyndetic compounds: the linking element is predominantly used in complex compounds to simultaneously mark the internal boundary (boundaries) within the construction and the coordinate relation that holds between the compounding elements. The discussion finally focuses on the status of -cum-, which appears to be a hybrid syntactic-morphological unit of present-day English. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 English nationallicence Compounding nationallicence Linking element nationallicence Coordination nationallicence Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/1(2013-02-01), 57-66 1871-5621 23:1<57 2013 23 11525 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9214-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-013-9214-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Renner Vincent Centre de Recherche en Terminologie et Traduction, University of Lyon, 86 rue Pasteur, 69007, Lyon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Morphology Springer Netherlands 23/1(2013-02-01), 57-66 1871-5621 23:1<57 2013 23 11525 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer