Re: Question about a grammatical term

Nihil Sum  <nihilsum@...> 2002.10.01. 21:56:57 -7h-kor írta:

> 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
>
Isn't that simply a compound? English has the (for my taste) bad habit to juxtapose
two words and not to form compound.
For exaple, most of the Hungarian (and the highly aggluginating LW) equivalents of
the examples are compounds, only English do not binds them together.
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