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Re: noun compounds

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Sunday, March 5, 2006, 2:05
On 3/4/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> A watermelon is not a melon containing water. We cannot expand the compound in the way > that we can expand the non-compound 'apple pie'; we cannot, for example, > say a *'a water- and whiskey-melon' (Now there's a thought ;)
Right. So "watermelon" is an "exocentric" compound, a.k.a. a "bahuvrihi", yes? (<genie>He can be taught!</genie>) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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