New Productive Patterns

N+Prep.

V+Prep.

N₁+Prep.+N₂

head-on spot-on by-election off-hour off-key by-way

up–country after–game off–street by–line after–life at–home talk teach ……

man–of-war mother–in-law air-to-air day-to-day house-to-house

Prep+Article+N

V+Prep+N

Adv+Perp+N

off-the

at-a-boy

Rack

Self

Job

Cuff

a stay-at-home

back-to-work

Prep+P I

Prep+Ner

Prep+Prep+N

in-fighting

on-stander off-stander

off-off-Broadway

“The STONE WALL problem”

A compound or a syntactically free phrase (cannon ball, rose garden)?

What is a wall – a noun or an adjective?

No consistency in spelling: arm-chair and arm chair; dish-cloth and dish cloth.

R. Quirk – correlation with the of-phrase: a dish cloth – a cloth for dishes.

H. Marchand – `stone` wall (a two-stressed combination),

singularization (billiards but billiard-room).

The contextual criterion– a complex used attributively before a third noun makes it a compound, especially with neologisms: “I telephoned: no air-hostess trainees had been kept late” (Fowles).

Nominal phrases and nominal compounds are correlated, they are semantically derivable. “We’ve done last-minute changes before” (Priestley).

Quotation compounds or holophrasis: the let-sleeping-dogs-lie approach, keep-your-distance chilliness – Phrase-formativedevice (L. Bloomfield).

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