Re: noun compounds
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 5, 2006, 2:05 |
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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>)
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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