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Re: noun compounds

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, March 6, 2006, 0:29
Ray Brown wrote:
> > As far as I am concerned, 'Apfel-Brombeer-Pastete' is a true compound. > It contrast with the English "apple and blackberry pie" where the > conjunction 'and' is need as it conjoining the epithet nouns 'apple' and > 'blackberry', both being epithets of the head noun 'pie'.
Just to sow more confusion, a lot of this would depend on context...as usual ;-( -- "She made a lovely apple and b.berry pie" -- 1 pie, it contained both. The article is what defines it I think; could also occur with "the"; and until such a recipe becomes very popular, I don't think we can eliminate the "and"... "For desert, we have apple and b.berry pie" -- could be either, personally I'd interpret it as two kinds of pie. Certainly we USers say "For Thanksgiving, it's customary to have mince and pumpkin pie"-- 2 kinds of pie (love 'em both!!) There is at least one 2-ingredient pie known to me: strawberry-rhubarb pie (usually in that order, rarely with "and"). My grandmother used to make _raspberry and currant_ jam (both together, delicious)
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