LINGUIST List 13.375

Mon Feb 11 2002

Sum: Compound Nouns in English

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  • Caroline Reul, compound nouns

    Message 1: compound nouns

     Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:58:07 +0100
    From: Caroline Reul <z174wsfz.zgs.de>
    Subject: 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