Attendant word complexes in Khmer (Cambodian)

• Main Author: Ayako, Sakamoto
• Other Authors: Training Institute of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Attendant word complex (or ‘AC’); Decomposition
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177716
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper examines units including barevasap ‘attendant words’ in Khmer. The units including attendant words (‘attendant word complexes’) are compound-like units, which break down into two words under certain conditions. The ‘decomposition’ of attendant word complexes is done by systematic wa...