This volume aims to carry out a comprehensive analysis of those nouns within the structure of the noun phrase which are referred to as N+N sequences (e.g. drug addiction, computer cluster). They are studied from three perspectives, namely their status as syntactic constructs, their evolution as becoming morphological items through a process of lexicalisation - whereby they gradually acquire properties of a semantic, morphological, orthographic and phonological nature -, and their use in which several variables such as speech community, mode and textual category are in operation. Additionally, this volume touches upon the problems in establishing clear-cut boundaries between morphology and syntax in order to define their status and evolution. A comprehensive corpus analysis rounds off the study.

Contents: English Noun Phrase Structure - Noun + Noun Sequences - English Linguistics - Corpus Linguistics - Morphology - Syntax - Syntax-Morphology Interface - Sociolinguistics - Lexicalisation - Gradience.

Iria Pastor-Gómez studied English Language and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela and obtained her MA in 2000. She also holds an MA Degree in Journalism and Communication Studies (2002). In December 2009 she received her PhD in English Linguistics and works now as a Lecturer of English at the Galician School of Higher Studies in Hotel Management, attached to the University of Santiago de Compostela.