Noun-Noun Compound Word
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A Noun-Noun Compound Word is a Compound Noun composed of only Noun Base Words.
- AKA: Noun-Noun Compound, N-N Compound.
- Context:
- It can be:
- a Closed Compound Word.
- a Hyphenated Compound Word.
- a Spaced Compound Word.
- It can be:
- Example(s):
- pocketknife
- bathroom
- bedroom
- headache
- shoe brush
- cowboy
- toothbrush
- dog food
- notary public
- Counter-Example(s):
- real time
- See: Noun-Noun Compound Noun, Noun-Adjective Compound Word.
References
1995
- (Lauer, 1995a) ⇒ Mark Lauer. (1995). “Corpus Statistics Meet the Noun Compound: Some empirical results.” In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
1978
- (Warren, 1978) ⇒ Beatrice Warren. (1978). “Semantic Patterns of Noun-Noun Compounds." GOthenburg Studeis in English 41.
1977
- (Downing, 1977) ⇒ Pamela Downing. (1977). “On the Creation and Use of English Compound Nouns.” In: Language, (53).
- NOTES: It analyzes the properties of Compound Nouns, specifically N+N Compound Nouns.
- NOTES: It defines a N+N Compound Noun based on Li (1971:19)'s definition: “the simple concatenation of any two or more nouns functioning as a third nominal”.
- NOTES: It examines the more common relationships between the first and second noun in a nominal compound
- NOTES: It concludes that there are a large number of relationships and that can be unpredictable from the semantics of the two words.
1971
- (Li, 1971) ⇒ Charles Li. (1971). “Semantics and the Structure of Compounds in Chinese.” PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
- NOTES: defines a Noun-Noun Compound as: “the simple concatenation of any two or more nouns functioning as a third nominal”.
1968
- (Kooij, 1968) ⇒ Jan G. Kooij. (1968). “Compounds and Idioms.” In: Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, 21.
- NOTES: It distinguishes between Idiomatic Compounds and Non-Idiomatic Compounds.
- NOTES: It describes an Idiomatic Compound as being unexplainable from its constituents