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Re: head-initial structure

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, May 16, 2002, 12:41
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". -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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