Re: head-initial structure
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 16, 2002, 12:41 |
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Mike S. scripsit:
> Actually I can't think of a single language that
> regularly forms head-initial compounds.
Vietnamese is SVO but otherwise quite rigidly head-initial. Native,
as opposed to Sino-Viet, compounds are always head-initial, in particular.
> English has a few like "scofflaw" and "killjoy",
Apparently this used to be quite productive, and some people have
called such compounds "tosspots".
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