Questions tagged [compounds]
A word consisting of more than one root.
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what kinds of two prepositions can or cannot be compounded?
Are these examples of compounding two prepositions:
from within
off of
outside of
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Are there descriptive rules for what kinds of two prepositions can be compounded, or for what kinds of two ...
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Is there any premise for Compounding Words in Spanish place names?
I'm trying to make a Fakemon (fanmade Pokemon) region based on Mexico, and I want to name a number of the cities with Spanish-sounding names. I admit that I'm terrible at making names, so I use this ...
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Phonemic transcriptions for English compound words
I have a question about the phonemic transcription for compound words in English. Is there a general rule? Specifically,
Should there be space/hyphen/no space between each element in a compound?
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How to Do NACLO Problem with Frogs 🐸, Ducks 🦆, and Bats 🦇
The Problem
My Question
How do you solve this?
My Pitiful Progress
(w), in Witsuwit'en, is likely a compound word of (a) and (v)
(15) and (16) are very similar spelling-wise. It is probable that ...
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Is there a name for "noun-verbing" adjectives?
Is there a name for adjectives that take the form of "noun-verbing", like "rabbit-hunting" or "self-driving"? Do this form only occurs in English?
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How to extract specific data from a TextGrid file?
I'm new here. Just found that there is a linguistics community on stack exchange!
I have a TextGrid file that has been output from a forced aligner, webMAUS and I mainly want to understand how to ...
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Across languages, what, if any, syntactic or semantic differences distinguish compound verbs from serial verb constructions?
Across languages, what semantic or syntactic differences distinguish serial verb constructions from compound verbs? Let's disregard phonological differences for the purposes of this question.
Let's ...
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What is the difference between compound words and derivational words?
I know that compound words are made up with two small words, but is "tax-free" or "timeless" compound word? How about "thought-free"?
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Part of speech of the word 'board' when in a compound word
When splitting the compound adjective 'onboard', there are two words; 'on' and 'board'.
'On' is a preposition, but what part of speech is 'board'?
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Is there a principled reason behind differing compound verb stress in English?
Is there a principled difference between compound verbs in English with stress on the first root and those with stress on the second root?
First root stress compound verbs:
Dropkick
Spoonfeed
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Is there a language without compound nouns?
The Wikipedia article on compounds claims:
All natural languages have compound nouns.
Is there a specific source to back this up? Or are there in fact languages that don't have compound nouns?
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Combine flexibility + ism , how ? thanks [closed]
I want to use the word flexibility in an "ism" form. I have two possible forms in mind but sure which one is better:
flexibilism
flexibiltyism
Which of the above forms is correct?
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Collocations vs compound nouns
Is there any definable difference between collocations and compound nouns? Or is it just frequency?
The answer does not seem to be transparency vs idiomaticity - looking at the text I'm presenting to ...
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Are bound forms in compounds more resistant to sound changes?
In English, words like cleanliness or breakfast have preserved an older vowel than those in the free forms clean and break. In Japanese, compound noun accent tends to match between dialects, even ...
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Compounds: Comparing Hyphenated With Other Forms?
Compounds can vary by:
spanning multiple words without using a hyphen
spanning multiple words and using a hyphen
being only comprised of 1 word
Some compounds seem common in all forms. E.g.:
pick ...
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Rules to constructing a proper compound noun in Ancient Greek
I am currently in the process of translating a text from one language into another, and the original uses a compound noun that can either be translated into English as "fly-eating" (losing the ...
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Complete List of English Compound Words?
I am looking for a complete list of English compound words (or a frequency list of English compound words).
Ideally, I'd prefer a list that lists the compound word and also its constituent words (for ...
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Should compounded words through agglutination be treated as unigrams or n-grams? [closed]
In a statistical language model, should one tokenize compounded words through agglutination as words by themselves (unigrams) or should they be tokenized into n-grams?
Example:
Staatspolizei (ISO ...
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Replacement of the letters in Japanese while compounding words
I've spent some time solving Fakepapershelfmaker NACLO problem, and later at solution I've read that some japanese letters do not require replacement while compounding.
In Japanese you should ...
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Term for nouns strung together by conjunctions
In the sentence:
Men, women and children are people.
What is the term for the combination of nouns and conjunctions found in the subject position?
"Compound noun" doesn't quite seem to fit the ...
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Having trouble with assigning stress degrees to a long compound
I need to give the stress degrees for each component in "compressed air powered fence post driver". If I want to argue that "compressed air powered fence post driver" is a compound, what are the ...
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Name of rule for whether compounds should be written with a space or not
What is the name of the rule that describes why some words are written together (e.g. "strawberry") and others apart (e.g. "street name")?
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πίστις & ἐλπίζω related linguistically?
This is stemming from a question on BH-SE.
Are faith (πίστις) and hope (ἐλπίς) related linguistically?
Is it at all possible that ἐλπίς is actually el/eli + πίστις or something + faith?
If not, is ...
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Is there an objective definition of compound words?
I've always had difficulty in distinguishing phrases from compound words. To me, spelling a compound word without spaces between the constituents seem to be mostly arbitrary. For example the spelling ...
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Is it possible for a language to have both left-headed and right-headed compounds?
Is it possible for a language to have both left-headed and right-headed compounds? And can one please explain this with examples and with the use of linguistic reasoning based on morphology?
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The complement of postmodifying prepositional phrases compounded by "and"
How does one parse "the need for and development of education"? "Education" naturally acts as the complement of both the prepositions "for" and "of", and the prepositions surely postmodify the nouns ...
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Singular versus plural in certain locutions: Is there a name for this?
I wouldn't touch that idea with a ten-foot pole.
He's a tool maker.
In Germany, Catholics and Lutherans pay a church tax.
The zebra stripes indicate a pedestrian crossing.
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On an anthropological feature of German etymology (e.g. Pusteblumen)
A curious and nice property of German is that some nouns don't have, say, intrinsic names, but composed (German!) names according to the human use or perception. For instance:
Pusteblume (...
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Tools to identify lexicalization
Is there any tests or morphological test which can help to identify whether an expression is lexicalised or not? For example, whether some compounds are processed through morphological processes or ...
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How much do languages vary when it comes to the prevalence of compound words in their lexicons?
Apparently, languages differ when it comes to the prevalence of compound words in their lexicons. For example, the fact that compound words are more prevalent in Chinese than in French was mentioned ...
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Are there agglutinative languages without a propensity for long compound nouns?
I've noticed a propensity for agglutinating languages to also permit quite long compound nouns. Finnish, Turkish and Hungarian certainly have them and I've been finding a few now that I'm trying to ...
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How common are the different semantic types of compounds?
According to the Wikipedia article, Compound (linguistic), compound words that occur in natural languages can be semantically grouped into four categories. Witness this quote from the article:
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English co-compounds? Is bittersweet a co-compound?
I'm looking for English or other standard European language co-compounds, and for other common examples.
I came across "bittersweet" but I'm not sure if it's really a co-compound. It has a ...
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What determines how noun compounds are formed in a language?
In English and other Germanic languages, noun compounds are formed simply by “appending” the nouns in a certain order. For example, phrases like this are very common:
electricity price comparison ...
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