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Lemmaappropriately classificatory
Categoria grammaticaleAG
Linguainglese
SiglaDowning (2004)
TitoloON THE CREATION AND USE OF ENGLISH COMPOUND NOUNS
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[...] a friend now carries the name "the bike-girl", a compound roughly paraphrasable as "the girl who parked her bike in the vestibule". She carries this name not because she habitually parked her bike in the vestibule; indeed, she did so on only one occasion. But this single incident was considered by the coiner of the compound to provide sufficient information for the categorization of this girl as sloppy, inconsiderate etc. Thus, in this case, a temporary relationship was deemed "appropriately classificatory".
- Downing (2004), Pag. 206