By Iria Pastor Gomez
This quantity goals to hold out a entire research of these nouns in the constitution of the noun word that are known as N+N sequences (e.g. drug habit, computing device cluster). they're studied from 3 views, particularly their prestige as syntactic constructs, their evolution as turning into morphological goods via a strategy of lexicalisation – wherein they steadily collect homes of a semantic, morphological, orthographic and phonological nature –, and their use within which a number of variables akin to speech neighborhood, mode and textual type are in operation. also, this quantity touches upon the issues in constructing straight forward obstacles among morphology and syntax as a way to outline their prestige and evolution. A complete corpus research rounds off the examine.
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G. ´watch maker), and [attribute + head] structures which originate in the syntax and are right-stressed (e. g. steel ´bridge). Those constructions which, in spite of being fore-stressed, are [attribute + head] constructions (e. g. ´orange juice), then, can finally be explained as the result of a lexicalisation process, where this process may have been accompanied by a gradual loss of syntactic characteristics that identify an N+N structure as a syntactic construct. 1. 51 Plag (2006: 145–146), though, has reviewed this assumption, and maintains that the variability of stress assignment in N+N structures depends on the combination of structural, semantic and analogical features.
G. woman ´doctor). When the first constituent is acting as either a locative or temporal modifier (e. g. hotel ´room, August ´contest). (iii) When the first constituent denotes the material out of which something is made (e. g. silk ´dress). (iv) When a predicative relation is established (e. g. key ´word). As can be appreciated, these structures are based on the compound external relations of coordination and modification (Olsen, 2000a: 62). However, despite differences of stress and interpretation, Olsen is of the opinion that these differences are not enough to be considered indicative of a change in structure.
G. wood ´bridge). However, Plag raises the following question: why are all forms not phrases, since they all have the same superficial structure? Furthermore, if the stress pattern of N+N constructions were as Giegerich (2004) claimed, then all novel [attribute + head] structures should receive right-hand stress to begin with; this is not always the case, though, and attributive N+N structures with lefthand stress can indeed be found (e. g. ´chocolate cake). As a consequence, further opinions as to a convincing explanation of stress variability need to be taken into account.