At 06:49 27/08/03, takatunu <takatunu@...> wrote:
>I had no idea that components of compound words could be compared to
>free-standing adjectives. I thought that no adjective could be laid
>inbetween "medical" and "student" or "garden" and "chairs" for the same
>reason you cannot say "gar-green-den" :-)
You just need something else of the same "rank":
the transfer medical student
the medical transfer student
the physics transfer student
the transfer physics student
And of course these things enter coordinate structures:
the physics and medical student
Ian