What is a compound noun? A compound noun typically uses a noun as a base word and combines it with another word that provides additional information or modifies the base noun. When combined, these ...
1 Institute of English and American Studies, English Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Research Area: Syntax and Lexicon, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ...
'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 ...
1 Department of Psychology, Neurocognitive Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Psychology, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Münster, ...
But a few compound nouns are hyphenated, 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 ...
Abstract: Compound nouns consisting of a sequence of nominals are easily composed and used very often in Japanese documents. While this feature gives an expressive power to the language, it is a big ...