Re: noun compounds
| From: | John Vertical <johnvertical@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 5, 2006, 0:29 |
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>>>In a language like ancient Greek which had real compound
>>>nouns you just could not do as this Swedish trick.
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>>I read it to mean that "real" compounds exist only in some languages, such
>>as Ancient Greek.
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>No - what I meant is that in languages that do have compound nouns you do
>not AFAIK find compounds split up with a conjunction shoved in the middle.
OK.
> >Is there really some reason why compounds like "watermelon" >wouldn't be
>"real"?
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>It is a real compound. I do not know why you would think it is not so or
>put 'real' in quotes.
>Ray
I don't see any reason either why words like "watermelon" wouldn't be
compounds, but you seemed to be saying that they REALLY weren't: "There are
epither-noun-constructions, which are different from the so-called compound
nouns, but for REAL compound nouns, we have to look at a language such as
Greek..."
In other words, I assumed you had some specific reason to bring Greek into
the discussion.
John Vertical
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