Melanie J. Bell | Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
A widely held view of noun noun constructions (NNs) in English is that some are compound nouns while others are noun phrases (e.g. Quirk et al. 1985: 1332, Biber et al. 1999: 589, Giegerich 2004). This chapter shows that a syntactic analysis of NNs necessitates the postulation of a cross linguistically exceptional phrase type, whereas a morphological analysis requires only the normal West Germanic processes of word formation. It therefore argues with Levi (1978: 66–74) and Olsen (2000), that these constructions are all compound words. The criteria of stress and lexical integrity, sometimes taken to indicate a dual origin, are shown to be unreliable. Furthermore, the analysis proposed here is in keeping with recent work by Plag et al. (2007, 2008) and Lappe & Plag (2007), who argue that stress is assigned to NNs on the basis of analogy with previously experienced forms.
2014. Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag: “The Oxford reference guide to English morphology”. Morphology 24:2 ► pp. 125 ff.
Gaeta, Livio
2015. Lexeme Formation in a Conscious Approach to the Lexicon. In Semantics of Complex Words [Studies in Morphology, 3], ► pp. 115 ff.
MORITA, CHIGUSA
2017. <i>Go to Ku to Nazuke-kinoo: Niti-eigo no “Keiyoosi + Meisi”-kei o Tyuusin ni </i>(Words, Phrases and the Naming Function: With a Focus on “Adjective + Noun” Forms in Japanese and English). ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 34:1 ► pp. 69 ff.
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