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+subtypes in see also: from Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Haspelmath at 14:32, 18 December 2007

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Haspelmath: Compounds moved to Compound: Glottopedia terms should appear in the singular.

2007-12-18T14:30:10Z

Compounds moved to Compound: Glottopedia terms should appear in the singular.

Waseela Hamam at 05:02, 18 December 2007

2007-12-18T05:02:19Z

Waseela Hamam: New page: ===Compounds=== The term “compound” is used to refer to a word formed by combining two or more lexemes. Different word-classes (Noun, Adjective, or Verb) can be combined to form a comp...

2007-12-18T04:59:16Z

New page: ===Compounds=== The term “compound” is used to refer to a word formed by combining two or more lexemes. Different word-classes (Noun, Adjective, or Verb) can be combined to form a comp...

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===Compounds===
The term “compound” is used to refer to a word formed by combining two or more lexemes. Different word-classes (Noun, Adjective, or Verb) can be combined to form a compound, though the most productive type, as far as English is concerned, is the Noun+Noun compound. Compounds, in English and some other languages, can be written as one word or two separate words, and they can be hyphenated as well. The following are examples of English compounds:

* ''football'' (Noun + Noun)
* ''babysit'' (Noun + Verb)
* ''pickpocket'' (Verb + Noun)
* ''snow-white'' (Noun + Adjective)
* ''dark-blue'' (Adjective + Adjective)
* ''brother-in-law'' (Noun+ Preposition + Noun)

Compounds can be divided into the following patterns in terms of semantic headedness:

1- Endocentric compound where one of the lexemes is considered the head of the compound and the other one as the modifier. Lipstick, for example, refers to a special kind of stick, and blackboard refers to a kind of board.

2- Exocentric compound where the thing that the compound refers to isn`t the same as the head. A redhead for example isn`t a kind of head.

3- Coordinative compound, also known as copulative compound, where “the relation between members is like one of coordination: e.g actor-manager ΄ actor and manager΄”¹.

4- Appositional compound where the parts of the compound refer to the same referent. A maidservant refers to a maid who is a servant.

Compounds are often marked in ways that distinguish them from phrases. In
English, for example, stress plays an important role in marking compounds. In the compound ‘greenhouse, stress falls on the first syllable, whereas in green 'house, an adjective modifying a noun, the stress falls on the second syllable.

===References===
1- Matthews, P. H. 2005. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.77.

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 ===Reference===
 Matthews, P. H. 2005. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.77.
 ===Other languages===

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 ===See also===
-*[[bahuvrihi compound]]s
+*[[bahuvrihi compound]]
-*[[dvanda compound]]s
+*[[dvanda compound]]
-*[[root compound]]s
+*[[root compound]]
-*[[synthetic compound]]s
+*[[synthetic compound]]
 ===Reference===

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 [[Appositional compound]], where the parts of the compound refer to the same referent. A maidservant refers to a maid who is a servant.
 ===Reference===
--	Matthews, P. H. 2005. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.77.
+Matthews, P. H. 2005. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.77.
 ===Other languages===

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	3- Coordinative compound, also known as copulative compound, where “the relation between members is like one of coordination: e.g actor-manager ΄ actor and manager΄”¹.		3- Coordinative compound, also known as copulative compound, where “the relation between members is like one of coordination: e.g actor-manager ΄ actor and manager΄”¹.
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	4- Appositional compound where the parts of the compound refer to the same referent. A maidservant refers to a maid who is a servant.		4- Appositional compound where the parts of the compound refer to the same referent. A maidservant refers to a maid who is a servant.

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-===Compounds===
+A '''compound''' is a word formed by combining two or more [[lexeme]]s. Different word-classes (Noun, Adjective, or Verb) can be combined to form a compound, though the most productive type, as far as English is concerned, is the Noun+Noun compound. Compounds, in English and some other languages, can be written as one word or two separate words, and they can be hyphenated as well.
-* ''football''              (Noun + Noun)
+* ''football''          (Noun + Noun)
 * ''babysit''           (Noun + Verb)
 * ''pickpocket''        (Verb + Noun)
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 * ''brother-in-law''    (Noun+ Preposition + Noun)
+===Subtypes===
 Compounds can be divided into the following patterns in terms of semantic headedness:
--	Endocentric compound where one of the lexemes is considered the head of the compound and the other one as the modifier.   Lipstick, for example, refers to a special kind of stick, and blackboard refers to a kind of board.
+[[Endocentric compound]], where one of the lexemes is considered the head of the compound and the other one as the modifier.   Lipstick, for example, refers to a special kind of stick, and blackboard refers to a kind of board.
--	Exocentric compound where the thing that the compound refers to isn`t the same as the head. A redhead for example isn`t a kind of head.
+[[Exocentric compound]], where the thing that the compound refers to isn`t the same as the head. A redhead for example isn`t a kind of head.
--	Coordinative compound, also known as copulative compound, where “the relation between members is like one of coordination: e.g actor-manager ΄ actor and manager΄”¹.
+[[Coordinative compound]], also known as [[copulative compound]], where “the relation between members is like one of coordination: e.g actor-manager ΄ actor and manager΄”¹.
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+[[Appositional compound]], where the parts of the compound refer to the same referent. A maidservant refers to a maid who is a servant.
--	Appositional compound where the parts of the compound refer to the same referent. A maidservant refers to a maid who is a servant.
+===Other languages===
-Compounds are often marked in ways that distinguish them from phrases. In
+{{dc}}
-English, for example, stress plays an important role in marking compounds. In the compound ‘greenhouse, stress falls on the first syllable, whereas in green 'house, an adjective modifying a noun, the stress falls on the second syllable.
+[[Category:Morphology]]

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