Syntactic sequence classes in morphological constructions: 1. Adjective plus noun, e.g. 'blackbird', 'greenhouse', and 'Redcoat'. 2. Noun plus noun, e.g. 'goldfish', 'beefsteak', and 'seacoast'. 3. First (i.e. '-ing') verbal plus noun, e.g. 'drawing-room', 'walking-stick', 'spinning-wheel'. 4. Verb plus adverb, e.g. 'go-between', 'holdup', and 'setup'. 5. Noun plus phrase, e.g. 'father-in-law' and 'cat-o'-nine-tails'. 6. Limiting attributive plus noun, e.g. 'everybody', 'nobody', and 'something'.
- Nida (1949), a pag.109