1fi) Phrasal compounds like Itoldyouso attitude orpipe andslipper husbandare complex ". words with phrases in modifier position. While Lieber (1988, 1992) argues that phrasal compounds provide evidence for a syntactic approach to word formation, Wiese (1996) holds that this is not true because the modifier is quotational. A related approach is put forward by Gallmann (1990) , who views phrasal compounds äs )|, nominal compounds, the phrase being converted into a noun. With a focus on the :

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... iption of German phrasal compounds and the notion of citation, several Problems with these approaches are pointed out. Starting from the observations that Vl j*the quotational approach cannot handle typical cases of non-sentential modifiers '•"jiiand that most phrasal modifiers are fixed expressions drawn from the lexicon, a f mixed approach to the formation of phrasal compounds is sketched which avoids the jjjpitfalls of the syntactic and the linear approach. The paper concludes with some n ( bservations on the productivity of phrasal compounds and on the quotational 11 inction of sentential modifiers.