NOUN COMPOUND IN ENGLISH

Ni Luh Ketut Mas Indrawati

doi:10.24843/ljlc.2013.v01.i02.p02

NOUN COMPOUND IN ENGLISH

Lingual Journal of Language and Culture ◽

10.24843/ljlc.2013.v01.i02.p02 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ni Luh Ketut Mas Indrawati

Keyword(s):

Primary Stress ◽

Noun Compounds ◽

English Noun

This paper aims at analyzing and describing the English compound specifically the English noun compound. Compound is a combination of two or more words of which meaning cannot always be predicted from the meaning of each part. In English, words, especially adjectives and nouns, are combined into compound structures in a variety of ways. This article attempts to discuss the formal characteristics and types of the English noun compound. The theory of compound was adopted for further analysis. The finding shows that the formal characteristics of the English noun compound are: the noun compounds have primary stress on the first constituent, the semantic unity of a noun compound is reflected in an orthographic, the meaning of the noun compound cannot be predicted from the meaning of the parts. The orthographic characteristics can be solid, hyphenated, and open. The types involved are Subject and Verb, Verb and Object, verb and adverbial, verb-less, subject and complement, combining-form and Bahuvrihi

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Plurals as modifiers in Dutch and English noun-noun compounds express plurality in production

The Mental Lexicon ◽

10.1075/ml.8.1.03ban ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 53-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Arina Banga ◽

Esther Hanssen ◽

Anneke Neijt ◽

Robert Schreuder

Keyword(s):

Picture Naming ◽

Naming Task ◽

Native English Speakers ◽

English Speakers ◽

Semantic Constraints ◽

Noun Compounds ◽

English Noun

The present study investigates the relation between conceptual plurality and the occurrence of a plural morpheme in novel Dutch and English noun-noun compounds. Using a picture-naming task, we compared the naming responses of native Dutch speakers and native English speakers to pictures depicting either one or multiple instances of the same object serving as a possible modifier in a novel noun-noun compound. While the speakers of both languages most frequently produced novel compounds containing a singular modifier, they also used compounds containing a plural modifier and did this more often to describe a picture with several instances of an object than to describe a picture with one instance of the object. Speakers of English incorporated some regular plurals into the noun-noun compounds they produced. These results contradict the words-and-rules theory of Pinker (1999) and also the semantic constraints for compounding put forth by Alegre and Gordon (1996). Interestingly, it appears, however, that the acceptability constraints put forth by Haskell, MacDonald, and Seidenberg (2003) apply to the production of compounds.

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A lexical semantic approach to interpreting and bracketing English noun compounds

Natural Language Engineering ◽

10.1017/s1351324913000107 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 385-407 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

SU NAM KIM ◽

TIMOTHY BALDWIN

Keyword(s):

Lexical Semantics ◽

Similarity Measures ◽

Semantic Relations ◽

Semantic Approach ◽

Semantic Roles ◽

Lexical Semantic ◽

Lexical Similarity ◽

Noun Compounds ◽

Interpretation Method ◽

English Noun

AbstractThis paper presents a study on the interpretation and bracketing of noun compounds (‘NCs’) based on lexical semantics. Our primary goal is to develop a method to automatically interpret NCs through the use of semantic relations. Our NC interpretation method is based on lexical similarity with tagged NCs, based on lexical similarity measures derived from WordNet. We apply the interpretation method to both two- and three-term NC interpretation based on semantic roles. Finally, we demonstrate that our NC interpretation method can boost the coverage and accuracy of NC bracketing.

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