• Dr. Abrar Hussain Qureshi

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• Dr. Muhmmad Akram

  Author

Compounding is one of the word-formation strategies, languages employ to form 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 a single orthographic word (Schmitt, 2000, p.99). It is a very productively and frequently
observed phenomenon in world languages; because most of the languages exhibit a great majority of complex words that are compounds. It is essentially an abbreviatory mechanism that languages prefer over corresponding phrasal or clausal constructions.
They are unambiguous because of the fixed word order, and unique in the sense that they acquire specialized meaning and, hence, form the immediate choice of the native speakers of any language. In a culturally rich language like Urdu, compounds play a major linguistic role. The present study explores the various combinations of Urdu Compounds semantically from lexicographic point of view, suggesting that these
compounds should be focused in Urdu learner’s dictionaries.

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