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Rohdenburg, Günter. 1988. Semantic fringe phenomena involving nominal compounds in English. In Geiger, Richard A. The problems of reference and the indeterminancy of `refer'. In : 85–96. : 204–215.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Annotation

The author criticizes Bauer's (1983: English word formation) classification of nominal compounds, by pointing out two types of nominal compounds which require that pragmatic factors are taken into consideration in order to establish their meaning.