LINGUIST List 13.375

Mon Feb 11 2002

Sum: Compound Nouns in English

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

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1. Caroline Reul, compound nouns

For query: 12 3037.2

After months, a summary of answers I received to my request for sources 
or lists of compound nouns. These were all helpful though I had hoped 
for actual lists of compounds. Thanks to those who sent me the 
following info:



1: two sites that are style guideline on treatment of compounds:

http://www.wilbers.com/part24.htm

http://www.urel.berkeley.edu/urel/styleguide/styleguide_wordlist.html


2. A paper with lots of examples

Liberman, Mark and Richard Sproat. 1992. "The stress and structure of
modified noun phrases in English". In _Lexical Matters_, Ivan Sag & 
Anna
Szabolcsi (eds), CSLI: Stanford, CA.

3. sources of copulative compounds as well as endocentric ones:

Olsen, S. 2001 Copulative Compounds: A closer look at the interface
between syntax and morphology. Yearbook of Morphology 2000, 279-320.

4. a paper about Noun compounds in English
containing a lot of data in the appendix, which was presented at
MMM 3, Barcelona, 21 September 2001.

The paper is downloadable from his web site
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~spena