compound noun
nominal compound

Using a group of compound nouns containing the same "head"

The German language is known for its extremely long compound nouns.

The majority of English compound nouns have one basic term, or head, with which they end.

But food and compound nouns have a long history.

The two terms were now compound nouns often shown hyphenated.

The compound noun dead-ender appeared occasionally in the second half of the 20th century.

The compound nouns are chasing the adverbs out of the language.

One of the most stimulating and challenging compound nouns.

Compound nouns take their gender from the head, which in Swedish is always the last morpheme.

Look through the box for two nouns together (compound nouns).

There are thousands of compound nouns in English.

Polish does not regularly place nouns together to form compound noun expressions.

As he learned Mandarin in school, one of his first compound nouns was “air pollution.”

Other common features include the use of serial verb constructions and compound nouns.

Also, contractions within compounded nouns have primary stress on the contraction.

Some words are often found together because they make up a compound noun, for example 'riding boots' or 'motor cyclist'.

As before, compound nouns are generally joined into one word, but several other compounds are now separated.

PIE had a number of possibilities to compound nouns.

Meister has been borrowed into English slang, where it is used in compound nouns.

In Swedish, compound nouns are written as one word, and interfixes are very common.

Tiresomely, however, not all English compound nouns are early-stressed.

It is irrelevant whether the resulting compound noun is spelled in one or two parts.

These types account for most compound nouns, but there are other, rarer types as well.

Bellcote is a compound noun of the words bell and cot or cote.

What’s getting the heave are most hyphens linking the halves of a compound noun.

Nominal compounds are common, and can include over 10 word stems.

Nominal compounds occur with various structures, however morphologically speaking they are essentially the same.

The four principle categories of nominal compounds are:

Nominal compounds are quite frequent.

Some examples of nominal compounds include:

Amsler shows that this notion ignores important classes of words such as open nominal compounds, phrasal verbs and idioms.

This allows nominal compounds, such as ice cream, to be treated as morphemes, and allocated the corresponding syntactic information.

In addition to liberal use of adjectives and adverbs, he would use nominal compounds and compound verbs.

A rich source of nouns are nominal compounds formed (somewhat irregularly) from other parts of speech and even complete sentences.

Another proposed origin is the denominal derivation of a nominal compound containing a noun root and a verb root (Jacques 2012).

Tiwary, Kapil Muni 1968 Pāṇini's description of nominal compounds, University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation, unpublished.

Tiwary's first book, Panini's description of Sanskrit nominal compounds, was published by Janaki Prakashan, Patna in 1984.

One other notable feature of the nominal system is the very common use of nominal compounds, which may be huge (10+ words) as in some modern languages such as German.

The first member of this type of nominal compound is an indeclinable, to which another word is added so that the new compound also becomes indeclinable (i.e., avyaya).

For example, in nominal compounds and noun phrases, all adjectival/nominal modifiers with three or more vowels in a modifier + nucleus NP lose their final vowel.

SA.GAZ 'murderer, robber', literally 'one who smashes sinews', is an original Sumerian nominal compound attested as early as ca. 2500 BC.

Nominal compounds occur with various structures, but morphologically speaking they are essentially the same: each noun (or adjective) is in its (weak) stem form, with only the final element receiving case inflection.

The following postpositions are case-forms of nouns with the third-person possessional suffix; they can be understood as forming nominal compounds, always indefinite, with the preceding words (see also Turkish grammar):

In Osgood & Hoosain (1974), it was found that recognition thresholds were consistently lower for words than for morphemes or trigrams, and lower for word-like nominal compounds than for noun phrases or nonsense compounds.

Instead of writing a new part of speech tagger, or sentence splitter, or list of common nominal compounds, we should have available a store of reusable tools and data that can be plugged into our new systems with minimal effort.

Thus, the suffix originates as a second member in nominal compounds, and referred to 'actions or proceedings, practice, ritual' identical with the noun lác 'play, sport, performance' (obsolete Modern English lake 'fun, sport, glee,' obsolete or dialectal Modern German leich).