Question about a grammatical term
| From: | Nihil Sum <nihilsum@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 2, 2002, 4:56 |
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Hello
I need to find out something. Someone who has more knowledge of grammar than
I do must know the answer to this: What is the term for the construction
where a noun is placed in front of another noun to modify it? Almost like
the first noun is acting as an adjective:
water cooler
basketball court
road rage
license plate
Coke machine
toilet humour
store hours
etc.
I ask because I noticed that this construction is completely absent from
Rhean. So I want to formalise this as a rule, and need to know the term for
it. Rhean would either put the first word in the genitive, or use an
adjective-forming suffix, or form a compound word (which is what a language
like German does to these anyway).
NS
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