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ProtoFubarnii Compounds

Page history last edited by Tom Groves 15 years, 3 months ago

Need to decide on rules for compound words (eg crisp-packet).

Type	Description	Examples
endocentric	A+B denotes a special kind of B	darkroom, smalltalk
exocentric	A+B denotes a special kind of an unexpressed semantic head	skinhead, paleface (head: 'person')
copulative	A+B denotes 'the sum' of what A and B denote	bittersweet, sleepwalk
appositional	A and B provide different descriptions for the same referent	actor-director, maidservant

spoilsport, killjoy, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought, and know-nothing.

These compounds consist of a verb and its object (V-O), and gloss as "person or thing who V's O".