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Query:	compound nouns
Author:	Caroline Reul
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Linguistic LingField(s):	General Linguistics
Summary:	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

LL Issue:	13.375
Date Posted:	11-Feb-2002
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