Spaced Compound Word

A Spaced Compound Content Word is a Compound Content Word with a Pause or Whitespace.

• AKA: Spaced Compound Content Word.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) refer to a Written Compound Word.
• Example(s):
  • "data mining", "life insurance". "high schools", "real time",

• • "absolute monarchy", "answering machine", "attorney general"", "automatic teller machine", "bed and breakfast",
  • "bottom line", "cross-platform application development", "cruise missile", "dining room", "eating utensil",
  • "fast food restaurant", "fortune cookie", "health care", "high school", "high-definition television",
  • "king of the hill", "law enforcement officer", "microwave oven", "milk chocolate", "natural language",
  • "non rapid eye movement", "rapid transit", "real estate", "red herring fallacy", "rock 'n' roll",
  • "tea bag", "terrace house", "user interface", "work in progress", "yellow fever".
•  ??? Proper Nouns.
  • "Michael Jackson", a Proper Noun.
  • "the Andes"
  • "the New York Yankees", illustrates that it can require different syntactic rules. E.g. "A The New York Yankees spokesman" is invalid.
  • "Canadian Swallowtail Tiger Butterfly" and "Papilio glaucas" are two words that refer to the same Concept.
• Counter-Example(s):
  • "viewpoint", a Closed Compound Word.
  • "Schadenfreude", a Closed Compound Word, Schaden(harm)+Freude (joy); http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
  • "insurance", a Derived Word (from insure).
  • "sisters-in-law".
• See: Hyphenated Compound Word, Unspaced Compound Word.

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References

• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_compound#Types_of_compound_nouns

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