LIN100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Morphological Derivation, Endocentric And Exocentric, English Compound
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Chapter 4: morphology: the analysis of word structure. Another common technique for word building in english involves compounding, the combination of two already existing words. With very few exceptions, the resulting compound word is a noun, a verb, or an adjective. In the most common type of english compound, the rightmost morpheme determines the category of the entire word. The morpheme that determines the category of the entire word is called the head. In terms of pronunciation, however, there is an important generalization to be made. In particular, adjective-noun compounds are characterized by more prominent stress on their first component. In non-compounds consisting of an adjective and a noun, in contrast, the second element is generally stressed. A second distinguishing feature of compounds in english is that tense and plural markers can typically not be attached to the first element, although they can be added to the compound as a whole.
