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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''IS A Condition''' is a condition proposed by Allen (1978) to express two salient facts about compounds: (a) the syntactic category of a compound is determined by its rightmost member, (b) the meaning of a compound is contained in the meaning of its rightmost member.<br /> <br /> === Example ===<br /> <br /> the English compound ''houseboat'' is a noun as is ''boat'', and a ''houseboat'' is a kind of boat. The Is A Condition is the predecessor of Williams' (1981a) [[Righthand Head Rule]].<br /> <br /> === Link ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=IS+A+Condition&amp;lemmacode=695 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Allen, M.R. 1978. ''Morphological Investigations,'' PhD diss. Univ. of Connecticut.<br /> * Williams, E. 1981a. ''On the notions 'Lexically Related' and 'Head of a Word','' Linguistic Inquiry 12, pp. 245-274<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]</div>

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