Compound nouns - notes de cours PDF

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COMPOUNDS NOUNS CN lunchtime caretaker tailcoat black hole green house Chinese teacher blackbird fashion brand acid attack survivor marriage proposal paper mill ice cream train station grown-ups necktie cigarette smoke window sill bus stop rockclimbing swimming-pool go-to guy handyman

queue de pie trou noir serre professeur de chinois merle marque de vetements survivant d’une attaque à l’acide demande en marriage papeterie that makes paper glace gare adultes cravate

escalade piscine interlocuteur, personne ressource homme à tout faire

break-out lie-down bookshop car park clothes shop glasses case civil rights activist men-of-war coats-of-mail contents page vegetable garden boat house house boat table tennis phone card horse race race horse still-life sabertooth in-between brother-in-law upbringing hide-out down-pour

NOT CN évasion sieste, pause librairie parking magasin de vêtement boîte à lunettes militant des côte de maille potager hangar à bateaux péniche tenis de table carte de téléphone course de chevaux cheval de course nature morte intermédiaire beau frère éducation cachette averse

Great Hall Professors Dumbledore moldy-looking, nervous-looking, sullen-faced → compound adjectives happiness, kitchenette → derivation : bound morphemes : can’t function independently black holes Chinese teacher → un professeur chinois new face reconstructive operations

COMPOUND NOUN is made up of two or more words (composition), each of which can be used independently. It is regarded as a single lexical unit and has the same characteristics as basic nouns SINGLE LEXICAL UNIT - new reference, meaning has been built (‘black holes in space ≠ addition 2 meanings (black+hole : ‘black ‘hole on the road) - new stress (NC : 1 primary stress ≠ 2 primary stresses) - segmentation of NP (galactic premodified ‘black hole’) FULLY LEXICALISED you can find it in the dictionary HYPHEN strongly suggests that it’s a compound noun phrase

pseudo compound noun

compound noun

white plate (adj + noun) = 2 lexical units black costume American flag

paper plate : sub-type of plate (material) or purpose meaning is a bit more transparent

paper mill : link between N1 and N2 has to be made, it is not clear (it is not a mill made of paper) paper mill = papeterie

paper mill = moulin en papier bastard son = a certain type of brother silk tie, gold watch, heart disease

DETER + HEAD a paper noun

DETER + PREMOD + HEAD a paper N N

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heart disease : pseudo compound semantics : N1 can be replaced by another noun or adjective (live disease, rase disease). The meaning is transparent. It is therefore a subtype of N2 modified by N1 : a disease which concerns the heart translation : an equivalent adjective can be found for N1 ! une maladie cardiaque

heartbreak = compound - semantics : N1 cannot be replaced by another noun or adjective : the two nouns have merged to form a completely new referent - it is a fixed expression

MORPHOLOGY OF NC (word form) COMPOSITION - N + N cigarette smoke - N + V.ING rock-climbing - V.ING + N swimming pool

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V + PREP + N go-to guy ADJ + N handyman PREP + PREP in-between

SPELLING - OPEN COMPOUND cigarette smoke - HYPHENATED COMPOUND dress-designer - CLOSED COMPOUND toothbrush

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N + PREP + N brother-in-law VERB + PARTICLE grown-up

Open compound nouns question the ICONICITY OF LANGUAGE spelling reflects the reality it describes (blackbird, black bird) because in the case of black hole it doesn’t work differentiating the two.

PLURAL - only the head inflects for number bookshops, men-of-war - unless the word can’t be found in the singular clothes shop, glasses case, civil rights activist

SYNTAX OF NC (word order) HEAD of the compound - HEAD ON THE RIGHT : N + N is N2 - vegetable garden, boat house, houseboat - reading order (left → right) - interpretation order (left...