D) compound-shortened words (contracted compounds),
e.g. tourmobile, V-day, motocross, intervision, Eurodollar, Camford.
4. According to the relations between the components compound words are subdivided into:
a) Subordinate compounds with one of the components being the semantic and the structural centre and the second component is subordinate; these subordinate relations can be different:
comparative relations, e.g. honey-sweet, eggshell-thin,
Limiting relations, e.g. breast-high, knee-deep,
Emphatic relations, e.g. dog-cheap;
objective relations, e.g. gold-rich;
cause relations, e.g. love-sick,
space relations, e.g. top-heavy;
time relations, e.g. spring-fresh;
subjective relations, e.g. foot-sore, etc.
b) coordinative compounds where both components are semantically independent. Here belong such compounds when one person (object) has two functions, e.g. secretary-stenographer, woman-doctor, Oxbridge, etc.
Such compounds are called additive. This group includes also compounds formed by means of reduplication, e.g. fifty-fifty, pretty-pretty (ironical), never-never, no-no, blah-blah and also compounds formed with the help of rhythmic stems (reduplication combined with sound interchange, ablaut combinations) e.g. criss-cross(rhythmical), chit-chat (idle talk), sing-song(monotonous voice), walkie-talkie.
5. According to the order of the components compounds are divided into compounds with direct order, e.g. kill-joy, and compounds with indirect order, e.g. nuclear-free, rope-ripe.