Re: Types of Compounds

Eric Christopherson wrote:>
>>Try < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_%28linguistics%29 >.
Empty page. ??????

>On Oct 19, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>
>>One of the things I neglected to handle in MNCL was a method of
>>compounding
>>(MNCL has plenty of derivation).....
But first, what
>>are all the
>>different types? There's adjective + noun, of course, like "redbird".
>>
Sanskrit and IIRC Greek distinguished several: N+N, Adj+Adj, Adj+N (or vice
versa), V+N, N+V (different I think), perhaps Adv+V ("quick-dry")

There are Skt. names for most if not all, and IIRC Ray Brown posted about
this a year or 2 or 3 back. Try searching for "bahuvrihi" or "dvandva" (two
of the Skt. terms I recall) in the Listserv Archive.