Names or descriptions: The status of French nominal constructions with à in comparison with German and Greek

Pius ten Hacken, Maria Koliopoulou, Sara Aufinger

Keywords: prepositional modifier, compounding, terminology, translation, multi-word expression

TL;DR: French à can introduce regular, syntactic modifiers of nouns, but also modifiers that behave like the non-heads of compounds, which is reflected in their German and Greek translations.

Submission Number: 76