Morphological Type of Compounds

In English morphological compounds the joining vowels are 'o' and 'i', the joining consonant is 's'. The first component in such compounds is mostly a bound stem, e.g.: Anglo-Saxon, electro-motor, sportsman, kinsman, heartsease, boatsman, huntsman, handicraft, crowsfeet.

Syntactical Type of Compounds

This type of compounds is peculiarly English, but in modern English, this type of compounds is not lined very often. E.g.: hook-and-ladder, man-of-war, mother-in-law, cat-of-nine-tails, touch-me-not, hide-and-seek, penny-in-the-slot, forget- me-not. There are syntactical compound adjectives that are included into dictionaries. But there exist English syntactical compound adjectives, which are built in the process of speech.

There are, besides the three big classes of compounds, two subordinate groups: compound-derived and compound-shortened words.

Compound-derived words are built with the help of two ways of word-building:composition and derivation, i.e. such words have two (or more) stems which is characteristic of compound words and they also have suffixes which is characteristic of derived words, e.g.: first-nighter, honeymooner, teenager, go-getter, long-legged, absentminded, light-minded, two-seater, weekender.

For this type of compounds suffixes -er, -ness for nouns and -ed for adjectives are characteristic.

Compound-shortened words are formed with the help of two ways of word-building: composition and shortening, i.e. such words have two or more stems, which is characteristic of compound words and besides, they are also contracted, which is characteristic of shortenings, e.g.: a.a.gun (anti-aircraft gun), g. man (government man), h. bag (hand bag).

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