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Downing, Pamela. 1977. On the creation and use of English compound nouns. Language 53 (4) : 810–842.
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Article in journal
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English
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D. argues that the appropriateness of a new noun + noun compound does not depend on general semantic relationships that hold between the members of the compound, but on the use to which the compound will be put, its interpretability and the extent to which it allows full exploitation of the informational resources of the compound form.