The word compound suggests two words that, together, have one meaning. The two words have become a kind of phrase or expression that acts like a noun. Often, two nouns make up a compound. For example, ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the process of compound noun construction from simple Malay sentences. To construct the compound noun, we characterize them according to the noun phrase categories in ...

'False friends' are words in one language that look like words in another language, but which have very different meanings. There are a number of false friends in German, where the words look ...