LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Part Of Speech, Icicle, English Compound
26 Sep 2018
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Compounds = the word formation process that combines two or more lexical categories to form a complex word base. Created from the noun spoon and the verb fed. Orthographical variation: gadekryds = street-cross, or "crossing" ligestille = equal-stand, "make equal, bagtale = back-talk, "slander. Korean: kot elum = straight ice, or "icicle" isul pie = dew rain, or "drizzle, nwyn mwul = eye water, or "tears" Compound: consists of a head and a modifier. Head provides the core meaning determines lexical category. A streetlight is a kind of light, so light would be the head, and street would be the modifier. Complex compounds = a compound in which the head and/or the modifier is itself a compound. This noun can be broken down into the noun box and the noun dog food, which can they be broken down into the noun dog and the noun food.
