Re: Types of nominal compounds (long!) (was: Question about a grammatical term)

En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

>
> The distinctive nature of bahuvrihi compounds is that they are headless:
> the
> second noun is not what they are about.  "Four-legged" is not a good
> example;
> "redskin" is much better.  A redskin is not a kind of skin, but rather
> a
> kind of person who has red skin.
>
Nice! I have to have those in Maggel :)) (not for now though, I'm still working
on the numbers, and I'd better hurry if I want to be ready when it's my turn in
the relay...)

> There is lots of cross-linguistic material on nominal compounds,
> originally
> collected by Ivan Derzhanski, as part of my Lojban reference grammar,
> The online version has badly damaged formatting, so here is the
> material
> in plain text.
>
[snip wonderful material!]

Beautiful and very instructive! I'm gonna keep this mail in a safe place!

Christophe.

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